Word: 1960s
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Herrera's image in Panama is another handicap. A nephew of the late Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, he led military crackdowns against civilian protesters in the former Canal Zone in the 1960s. Called home from Israel by Noriega last year to help repress demonstrations, he did so with what some considered an overly strong hand. Still, if Herrera could topple Noriega and keep the military out of politics while a democratic government emerged, that would more than satisfy U.S. interests. It might also be something of a miracle...
...broad freeways invited today's congestion. When the interstates were built, 90% funded by the U.S. Government, most suburbs viewed them as all the highway they would ever need. Coalitions of environmentalists and taxpayers defeated plans for additional major arteries in San Francisco, Boston and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when they would have been cheaper to build. "Highway expansion was perhaps the first victim of the not-in-my-backyard syndrome. Now we are paying the piper," says Jose Gomez-Ibanez, a professor of public policy and urban planning at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School...
...response to the campus disturbances of the late 1960s, Ivy educators say search committees began to place a premium on crisis management. The result was that law school deans and those with strong administrative backgrounds and keen negotiating skills fast became the presidential ideal...
President Bok, who is the dean of the Ivy League presidents, perhaps best exemplifies this crisis-manager ideal. With a background in labor law, and a cool and calm demeaner, Bok was called in to restore peace to a campus torn apart in the late 1960s...
...Richard Goodwin, a former speechwriter and aide to L.B.J., has taken such recollections several steps further. In his memoir of the 1960s, Remembering America (Little, Brown; $19.95), Goodwin writes that Johnson was at times literally crazed and that his episodic madness helped propel the U.S. into "a needless tragedy of such immense consequences ((Viet Nam)) that, even now, the prospects for a restorative return remain in doubt." He brazenly diagnoses Johnson's large eccentricities as "incursions of paranoia," which led to leaps "into unreason" that "infected the entire presidential institution...