Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty was to begin its discussion of the merger that spring, but the tumultuous events of University Hall and its aftermath tabled the issue for the rest of the year. Plans, however, were proceeding for the implementation of the first coed housing experiment to take place the following year, and the realization of that aspect of merger--the prospect of which had provided much of the impetus for the merger's original proposal--overshadowed some of the merger's more far-reaching implications...
...strategy still depended primarily on his ability to use American ground troops in any fashion he desired. For that reason, the issue of American casualties--as opposed to the more profound and fundamental issue of the war policy itself--was the center of public attention in the aftermath of Cambodia. And much of the nationwide outrage that followed the invasion was inspired by an aspect of the war that was only tactical. The diffuse and directionless protest in response to the invasion was easily co-opted by a peripheral concession. Nixon learned his lesson: do not make ground troops...
...aftermath of President Nixon's slashing attack on busing, the nation continued to slip away from its intention to integrate its schools. Amid a growing but still ineffective counterattack by Nixon's critics, there were these major developments...
Smuggled Rifles. The further breakup of Pakistan is a nightmare that has become a possibility-though no more than that as yet-in the aftermath of last December's war with India. Since then, continued martial law has provided a focus for the historic nationalism of the warlike Pathan and Baluch tribesmen. Russian-supplied automatic rifles are being smuggled across the frontier from Afghanistan, evidently destined for the 6,000-strong Zalme Pakhtoon (Pathan Youth). A bloody riot erupted in Quetta, a city in Baluchistan, after Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed governors for the two provinces from...
...capable of forcing a man to a course of action he might never have realized alone. So with the hoards of disappointed. Some stumbled into a rough port surging up and down hills overlooking a beautiful bay. The tranquil sweep of water had a civilizing effect, and in the aftermath of earthquake, the community drew solidly together: out of the wreckage of the Barbary Coast grew a city sophisticated by disaster, as elegant and corrupt as the lost metropolises of the East. Others, wandering into the rich central valleys just off the coast, felt an echo of what was lost...