Word: tuesday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Tuesday, Vaclav Havel stepped from a silver Volkswagen Golf and, trailed by eight fellow members of the Civic Forum, proceeded to a second-floor conference room in the cream stucco building. Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec opened the talks with a seven-minute statement outlining the government's concessions. In return, Adamec said, "please terminate your strikes. This is my wish and my plea." Havel was in no mood to be conciliatory. For the next 18 minutes, he listed the Civic Forum's demands, all of which, he said, must...
Other unexpected triumphs have attended the revolution. Last Tuesday two Civic Forum representatives delivered a letter to the Soviet embassy asking the Supreme Soviet to disavow the 1968 invasion. The two were assured the letter would be telexed to Moscow promptly. "We are very happy with the way events are going," embassy counselor Vasili Filipov told them. "Especially that there is no bloodshed, because we feared bloodshed." How times have changed...
STUDENTS in Social Analysis 10 will probably spend Christmas vacation recovering from the ravages of the second course-wide hourly given this week. They will do themselves a favor by forgetting some of what they frantically crammed on Tuesday night...
...Florence Ladd, director of Radcliffe's Bunting Institute and a friend of Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins, who died of cancer this Tuesday morning...
...Monday, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Prague and Bratislava, Czechoslovakia's two largest cities, against Adamec's new Cabinet. He reopened negotations with the opposition Tuesday...