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...October 18, 1938, in the heat of a battle to restructure the city government, the council voted unanimously to make the University a separate municipality. Although the council's request was never granted, it left a memorable legacy of the grizzled and sometimes legendary opposition between Harvard and Cambridge from which their modern discord grows...
...state Legislature never responded to the council's request, but the controversy over "secession" indeed prevented the Cambridge Committee for Plan E from convincing enough citizens to support the restructuring measure the next month...
Forty members of a New Hampshire Air National Guard security unit were standing by at Pease Air Force Base about 15 miles away, at the request of Gov. Judd Gregg...
...Latvian delegate strode uninvited to the podium. "I ask you to honor the memory of those who died in Tbilisi," urged the gray-bearded man, referring to the 20 demonstrators killed in the Georgian capital in April, some reportedly with poison gas, during clashes with army troops. That request, which prompted the delegates to rise for a moment of silence, was not merely unrehearsed, it was an explicit act of defiance that went against Gorbachev's wish that no ethnic group be singled out for sympathy...
Hammadi, who is linked to the radical pro-Iranian group Hizballah, was arrested in January 1987 while trying to smuggle explosives through Frankfurt airport. West Germany denied a U.S. extradition request after Hammadi backers kidnaped two German businessmen in Lebanon, prompting criticism that Bonn was knuckling under to blackmail. Hammadi could have faced the death penalty in the U.S., not an option in Germany. Said Stethem's father Richard: Hammadi "deserves punishment more severe than allowable under German...