Word: remains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think a small Greek community at Harvard would be beneficial to the student population...We feel we're no different than any other college students, and there is no reason we should remain isolated in an ivory tower...
...Grand Opera House before repairing to the fabulous Palace Hotel (a telephone and bath for every room, no less), was simply the glittering usual. As the populace drifted to sleep that night, all was well. Who could have dreamed that in only a few hours little would remain of this luminous metropolis but some blackened hills and charred ruins by the Golden Gate...
...proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences remain unknown. The Food and Drug Administration calls the preliminary research "very exciting," but approval for general use may be years away...
While many experts agree that Webster has identified a real problem, some think the ambiguity should not be resolved. "There is a gray area," says Anthony Beilenson, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "And it ought to remain there. The fact that there's a little bit of uncertainty about the Executive Order serves a useful purpose. We should be cautious when it comes to coups that may lead to assassination." In fact, the CIA has procedures for high-level review of operations that could violate the ban. And yet a clear distinction between coups and assassinations is not always...
...more radical activists of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which is also banned, reject talks altogether. Jafta Masemola, a P.A.C. leader released with Sisulu, said, "We cannot negotiate with the usurpers of our land." While most black leaders agree that De Klerk has set off in a new direction, they remain skeptical because of the destination he has in mind. De Klerk's policy, fully endorsed by the ruling National Party, is one of constitutionally guaranteed "group rights" defined by race, including the right of whites to veto legislation they might consider threatening, to live in whites-only neighborhoods...