Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fainsod Committee, although established before the turbulent events of 1969, reflected in its final report the increased concern with student participation in decision-making stimulated by the strike and its aftermath. The Committee report recommended creating a number of student-Faculty committees, of which two survive--the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). These committees and the assembly have circled warily around each other this year, for the assembly's formation indicated many students' dissatisfaction with these committees. Moreover, the assembly has refused to act subordinate to CHUL...
...aftermath of the terrorist assassinations by a group calling itself Forghan, few moderates were willing to speak out, for fear of being accused of aiding counterrevolutionaries. Premier Mehdi Bazargan cautioned against becoming "tyrants ourselves," but the public generally was still overwhelmingly in favor of the trials. "Let the Western press and the so-called human rights organizations howl on," voiced Radio Iran. "Their double standards fool nobody. The revolutionary tribunals have a bereaved nation to account to. They may not desecrate the sacred memory of tens of thousands of our martyrs by being lenient to these criminals...
...sudden drain of adrenalin and the misery of a second loss to despised Yale kept him rooted there for a good three minutes. Finally Raymond's hand descended to grab the hand of his disconcerted oarsman, and the pair walked away from the shell for moment, in the somber aftermath of defeat...
Middle East Aftermath...
...Pipes's "enchanted world" dissolved in the heat of the strike and its aftermath, those faculty members who sought such a world did not disappear with it. Some former members of the caucus have retired; others have died. But ten years later, the majority continue to teach, no longer members of a faction, but unchanged in their assessment of the legacy of 1969. Lost scholarship, student-faculty distrust, enmities within the Faculty--the conservatives regard these as the long-term ill effects. The long-term lesson, as May puts it, is the realization that "nearly all issues can be discussed...