Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual senior in Eliot House called the fast "just another manifestation of the basic immature tokenism which you find around here these days...
...even more basic argument against any stab-in-the-back theory is that the military only belatedly made the case for an all-out effort. Especially in the conflict's early years, the professionals of war were thinking in the old way of victory on the battlefield, and troops conventionally trained by the U.S. were a little like the British redcoats fighting in lines as they engaged in forest skirmishes against the American colonists and their Indian allies. Clumsy U.S. battalions in the mid-1960s were out of place in the jungles, swamps and highlands of South Viet...
...Pakistan will operate under the one-man, one-vote rule. The chief result will be to give populous but impoverished East Pakistan greater power-this despite the fact that Yahya is a West Pakistani and his province has been predominant in the past. The move, he explained, was "a basic requirement of any democratic form of government...
...appeal the report's findings, the Council's members must officially ignore the charges for the time being. As a result, they will confine this week's discussions to a less volatile, though related issue: Did the military-backed regime have any justification for denying basic human liberties to its citizens? The Athens government of Premier George Papadopoulos and his fellow colonels is fearful that suspension from the Council, a powerless but prestigious European mini-U.N., would tarnish Greece's already marred image. Junta officials have threatened some European nations with trade reprisals if they...
...American publishers recently have brought out two guides for laymen, Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development (Prentice-Hall, $6.95), and An Outline of Piaget's Developmental Psychology for Students and Teachers (Basic Books, $4.95). In addition Piaget and his longtime associate, Barbel Inhelder, have summarized his discoveries in a new book called The Psychology of the Child (Basic Books...