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...20th anniversary of the student takeover of University Hall, the Conservative Club comandeers the Business School's Baker Library demanding admission to Goldman Sachs' two-year analyst training program. After an unexpected scuffle over transcript files erupts, Harvard police fax the protestors a memo urging them to stop the violence. The demonstrators finally agree to leave the building in exchange for the restoration of ROTC on campus and the Pledge of Allegiance made mandatory at the beginning of each class...
...From a memo posted two weeks ago at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, based on an advisory sent to American diplomatic missions in Europe and the Middle East...
...Armacost, Assistant Secretary for Middle East Affairs Richard Murphy and counsellor Max Kampelman clustered around a TV set to watch Yasser Arafat's United Nations speech in Geneva. By the time Shultz walked in near the end of the speech, the glum group had already prepared a single-page memo. "There was no dispute; there were no differences," says a participant. "Arafat's presentation was unacceptable...
Those who believe that the movement inflames nativist resentments got some ammunition this fall. The ethnocentric views of U.S. English's co-founder and former chairman John Tanton came to light when initiative opponents uncovered a 1986 memo in which he expressed worry that low white birthrates and high Hispanic birthrates would endanger American society. Wrote Tanton: "Perhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down." Board member Linda Chavez, former staff director of the Civil Rights Commission and later candidate for the U.S. Senate...
...Obviously (now obviously!), the first threemonths of observations differ from the rest by afactor of 10," the memo reads in part. Itconcludes, "I shudder to think that other casesmight go unnoticed if we don't take action...