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Last week's fighting looked very much like an attempt by the Bosnians to break the three-year siege. President Alija Izetbegovic almost said as much. His army, he declared, had been "ordered to undertake measures to prevent any further strangulation of the city." There was no question the Serbs' grip was throttling Sarajevo. For three weeks the city's natural gas and electricity had been cut off, and water had to be pumped by hand. Humanitarian-aid shipments were halted by the Serb blockade, and food warehouses were empty. Air shipments of supplies have been impossible for two months...
Does he spend much time there? "Sophomore year, kind of on a whim, I ran for a spot on the town meeting, one of three governing bodies in Lexington. I didn't do much, but I ended up losing by less than one percent...At that point, I realized this was something I could do, so the next year I campaigned, wrote in the town paper, the Lexington Minuteman, and distributed flyers. I won a three-year term...It's a very tough job, but it's fun too. You get right involved in running a town...
Negotiations broke down once the full faculty got involved in the spring of 1969. The morning after police cleared Vietnam protesters out of University Hall, the faculty released an outline of a three-year program entitled Afro-American Studies Combined with One Allied Field...
...Bossert, Arnold professor of science and master of Lowell House; Nicola Di Cosmo, assistant professor or professor of Chinese and inner Asian history; George B. Field, Willson professor of applied astronomy; Theda Skocpol, professor of sociology; and Judith D. Vichniac, lecturer in social studies, have been elected to three-year terms...
Cynthia Damon, associate professor of the classics; Cynthia M. Friend, professor of chemistry; and Barbara J. Grosz, McKay professor of computer science, finish their three-year terms this month...