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...breakdown of the coalition government's elections. The October, 1975 polling has little in common with the Chilean fiasco, where a socialist regime attempted to assume power through the ballot box, leaving intact the fascist network of its predecessors. Rather in Angola the population had already fought an arduous 14 year war against the Portuguese minority regime for the very sake of establishing a socialist state under majority rule. During the transitional period last year, the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement conducted and published monthly polls on the relative popularity of the three liberation movements. While the Popular Movement...
This month Briarcrest will win an even more significant victory: it will be fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, important recognition that most institutions receive only after an arduous application process that usually consumes four or five years. What Briarcrest lacks, however, is blacks. All of its 1,432 students and 69 faculty and staff members are white...
...frontier, armed only with the Koran. By the end of the week, 700,000, including 70,000 women, had signed up for what Moroccan newspapers had dubbed "the Green March" (after Islam's traditional color). Doctors were still giving physical examinations to decide who was up to the arduous 15-day, 60-mile trek across a land as desolate as the moon, where temperatures at this time of year can climb as high as 113° at midday and fall to 41° at night...
Victoria Steinberg quite correctly captured my main observation, namely, that research is arduous and its results visible, hence risky, whereas in the privacy of the classroom, teaching is generally subject to less careful scrutiny. Hence research requires a climate of support from one's departmental colleagues and not only from administrators who may be seeking to lift the level of their institutions. David Riesman
...perspective has changed but the facts haven't. The fight for suffrage was along, arduous one, but acceptance of women's civil rights did not automatically follow. The years from 1920 to the present have proved that. The modern woman has tried waiting, but that hasn't worked. She is now back to fighting...