Word: architected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's cultivable riceland will, in effect, be bought out by the government for a total of $400 million in cash and bonds. The U.S. has promised to provide 10% of the amount. Says Thieu's new Minister of Agriculture, Cao Van Than, who is the architect of the reform program: "We are trying to take the initiative from the Communists...
...detribalizing urban classes and made them his constituency. He was an early and fervent apostle for his country's freedom, inspired by Jomo Kenyatta. But he deplored the violence and bloodshed of the Mau Mau uprisings against the British and refused to participate in them. He became the architect of independent Kenya's major documents, including its constitution. He also pleaded eloquently for a Marshall Plan for all Africa, for the creation of an African economy, and "the brotherhood of the 'extended family' in a United States of Africa...
...then, when Gropius arrived at Harvard, he was an architect who could already present valid alternatives to the eclecticism that characterized, indeed more often than not plagued, American architecture. As if in response to the architectural potpourri that is Harvard between Kirkland Street and the Charles, Gropius left a unified Graduate Center complex focused on Harkness Commons...
...years that followed, he was commissioned to design the University of Baghdad and new American embassy in Athens and was selected as a consulting architect for New York's Pan American Building...
...chief in April, the country has been gripped by an ever-tightening rule. In a swift series of purges, the liberals of the Dubček era have been removed from the Central Com mittee. Among those dropped was Ota Sik, who earned Moscow's ire as the architect of Dubček's economic reforms...