Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment they first got fragmentary reports of Mao Tse-tung's "secret" speeches propounding the heretical notion that there can be "contradictions" between a Communist government and its people (TIME. May 27), Western experts have been debating whether or not Red China's boss was trying to assert ideological independence of Moscow. Last week, as Polish Communists began to leak quotations from his pronouncements, it became apparent that Chairman Mao was putting himself on a par not just with Khrushchev but with the prophets of Marxism. "Marx and Engels." Mao had said with bland Oriental condescension...
...employees affected--janitors, groundsmen, maids, maintenance men, and other unskilled groups--have been represented since 1938 by a company Union, the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association. The officers of that group assert that they know of no serious dissatisfaction among their members, and claim that "the AFL hasn't a prayer of a chance here...
Sullivan terms his a "strong union" and claims that it would be able to back up its demands at the bargaining table. He thinks the HUERA lacks the strength and contractual right to assert its demands...
HUERA officials also assert that fringe benefits such as insurance, vacations, and holidays at the University are equal to, if not better than, those offered elsewhere. "The new Harvard sick plan is the best anywhere," Stone comments...
...Sooner or Later." In the midst of all the dignified swallowing of pride that was going on, Israel proclaimed that it was about to send an Israeli ship through the canal to assert its right, and Egypt just as huffily said that the ship would be stopped on the basis of Egypt's right to "self-defense." For more than a month a ship fully loaded has sat in Haifa harbor ready for the testing. For 48 hours last week there was an onrush of international tension. The U.S. announced publicly that it still supported Israel's legal...