Word: allows
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...continued, and needs to bring in officials from Washington -- "there are even some of us who think they are already in excess." In forcing the students to examine the Establishment and its mechanical process, Peretz said, the Institute has failed to internalize any kind of critical format which will allow the student to judge the Government as well as understand it. "If the people who are brought to speak to the students about politics can't be candid with them, then they just as well might be appearing on 'Meet the Press' or 'Face the Nation...
Although The Institute cannot substitute for the benefits of an academic capitol, Lipset says, it will allow the scholars a greater say in what goes on in Washington--something they have long looked forward to. One of the problems of our geographic location, he continues, is that when intellectuals go to work for the government they are separated from their academic work -- causing a kind of schizophrenia. Harvard has always supported the idea of closer relations between Cambridge and Washington as can be seen from a series of Harvard institutions -- the Graduate School of Public Affairs, the Center for International...
From the start, Lyndon Johnson had been worried that Hanoi was less interested in launching talks than in pressuring the U.S. into a permanent bombing pause that would allow the North to resupply its forces without interference. As it turned out, Hanoi used the Tet pause to do just that, mobilizing 2,200 trucks and 1,572 vessels to speed between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of materiel to the South. That is enough to enable the 282,000 Communist troops engaged in the war, who lately have been averaging only one or two days of fighting a month...
...command over Ethiopia as firm as ever. He has put down three coup attempts in the past six years (for one of which four army officers are now on trial in Addis Ababa). He is, in fact, as close to an absolute ruler as the century will allow. Although he has permitted a Parliament to function for the past twelve years, he alone has the power to choose his Prime Minister. He regularly plays shum-shir-the Ethiopian equivalent of musical chairs-to prevent his top ministers from gaining too much power, and he still serves as his nation...
...four-legged "quadruped" truck that is being developed by General Electric for travel over rough terrain, the driver controls the vehicle's front legs with hand-operated levers; the rear legs are moved by the driver's own legs, which are strapped into control braces. Feedback circuits allow the driver to "feel" the traction on the ground beneath...