Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Expect the unexpected," Principal Winston Davis warned the 700 students in Knoxville's Fulton High School auditorium last week. As the assembly settled into an eye-glazing film on the high school's construction, six warriors in camouflage gear suddenly mounted a platform near the stage and began firing their M-16s. The youngsters screamed and scrambled for cover. But the gunplay ended almost immediately, and Sergeant Major Bob Gregory of the Tennessee Army National Guard informed the students that the soldiers were shooting blanks. "This was just a scenario," said he. "It's not for real...
...most credible rightist threat is the Conservative Party, which currently holds 18 seats in Parliament. It will fight the election on the easy-to-understand platform of a return to full separation of the races, a policy it calls "partition." Says Spokesman Cornelius Mulder: "Subdivide the land; don't share political power." But even Conservative Leader Andries Treurnicht, who accuses the Nationalists of capitulating to black demands and endangering white South Africans, entertains no hope of taking over the government. He and his strategists would like to win enough seats to replace the moderate Progressive Federal Party as the official...
...Union last week were typical of the now- you-see-it, now-you-don't liberalization taking place under Gorbachev. The invitation to Sakharov to attend a Kremlin disarmament forum this week could provide Gorbachev with a prestigious ally in his antinuclear campaign. Thus, it will be a good platform to show off the new Soviet openness in a way that also serves Moscow's interests...
Last February, the Undergraduate Council faced a highly contested, back-biting election for the first time. Two sophomores organized a campaign to unseat the incumbent chairman and vice chairman, Brian C. Offutt '87 and Steven B. Smith '87. Running on a platform which advocated the council's increased involvement in ideological issues, the two presented a serious challenge to Offutt's chair. The two challengers ended up losing the election, but the aims and nature of the council underwent a serious evaluation...
Marphatia said his platform stressed "de-emphasizing the hierarchy, and making the Review a more egalitarian place...