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Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger had ketchup thrown at him when he spoke several years ago. Two years ago, in a move admittedly designed to provoke liberals more than enhance campus debate, the Conservative Club brought a South African official to Cambridge. The strategy worked, as a raucous mob of students assembled outside Lowell House and prevented the consul from leaving the campus. It took a phalanx of policemen and a decoy to maneuver the consul from the house...
...Indian, who were abducted in January by gunmen posing as policemen. A Shi'ite splinter group calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine warned Israel that if it did not release 400 jailed guerrillas within a week, the four teachers would be "executed" and "their corpses thrown in the garbage cans of Cyprus...
Back in 1958 I witnessed the expulsion of Boris Pasternak from the Writers' ( Union. Some even demanded that he be thrown out of the country. They called him a "pig rooting in our Soviet garden." Today Historian Dmitri Likhachev in a Literaturnaya Gazeta article unequivocally demands that Doctor Zhivago be published. Today our literary journals are preparing important books for publication: Vladimir Dudintsev writing about Stalin's suppression of genetics; Anatoli Pristavkin on the forced resettlement of ethnic Chechens from the Caucasus; Anatoli Rybakov on the assassination of Sergei Kirov. All these subjects were banned in the past...
...right. Clothing has been sober and serious in recent years. The dominant figure of the late 1970s was not a Frenchman but the brilliant tailor Armani. In the early '80s the Japanese brought artistry to clothing, but very few chuckles. Lagerfeld cheered things up a bit, but Lacroix has thrown all caution -- some would add taste -- to the winds and opted for outright hilarity...
...Crimson certainly didn't expect a 4-4 gamewith four minutes left in the second period. Atthat juncture, Young took a pass at midice andskated down the right side. Before he reached theCadet net, he was met by Wilson and Brennan.Punches were thrown. Bourbeau joined theburgeoning brawl, and afterward the game took on adifferent aura--one that was favorable to theCrimson...