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...students declared "sanctuary" in the church on Friday. At that time, the worshippers announced their support for the candidacy of South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond M. Tutu, who is seeking election to Harvard's Board of Overseers on the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid slate...
Another cause of skepticism about the elections was the bloc of 750 seats reserved for official and public organizations. But even there, insurgency reigned. Leaders of the Soviet Academy of Sciences produced a limp slate of 23 nominees for their 20 reserved seats, pointedly excluding physicist Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel laureate and human-rights activist. But the membership voted down 15 of them, which means that the academy's leaders must come up with new candidates, presumably including Sakharov this time. The Soviet Peace Committee, a goodwill and propaganda organization, was allotted five seats. Among those elected by the group...
...approach really amounts to a second industrial revolution. The old ways of doing business will be just as hard to replace as the rusting machinery. "It is not that they aren't going to make some progress, but it's much more difficult than starting out with a clean slate," says John Hardt, a Soviet specialist at the Congressional Research Service...
HRAAA--which nominates candidates through petition drives--has always relied on highly public media campaigns. They announced this year's slate at a press conference at Bok's Mass Hall front door, and have already mailed letters to some 35,000 alumni...
...meanwhile taken to nominating famous candidates whose high profiles guaranteed them overseer seats. With Transportation Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole, former Democratic Party Chair Paul G. Kirk '60 and actor John Lithgow '67 on this year's official slate, HRAAA needed somebody like Tutu--a Nobel Peace Prize winner--just to stay alive...