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...partly by promising the island's 320,000 inhabitants that he would relax this link to the West. The Russians do not really need another naval base, but they may find irresistible the idea of just showing the red flag on an island that was long a NATO bastion and won Britain's George Cross for heroism in World...
What is a true bastion of iron? It is the masses, the millions upon millions of people who genuinely support the revolution...
...arguing, on the other hand, that the depressing figures are due entirely to overt discrimination, although we have found evidence of discrimination just as we have found evidence of career difficulties. To a considerable extent, the present situation must be explained by Harvard's history. A male bastion for more than three centuries, growing over time from a denominational men's college to a major university, Harvard has been slow to recognize changes in ideas about sex roles. It has tended to overlook injustices and has continued to "do business in the usual manner." But we have now reached that...
...report released this week, the Committee calls Harvard "a male bastion for more than three centuries [which] has been slow to recognize changes in ideas about sex roles" and "tended to overlook injustices." The report continues, "But we have now reached that point which usually precedes significant change, when the injustice is so visible and the discontent so apparent that few can doubt the need for reform...
...very obvious that Greece has been turned into a major bastion, staging area, in fact, for the American penetration of the Middle East and Africa and so forth. It's very clear. As time goes on, one can see, in fact, even that the colonels are being used by the U.S. for contact in the African continent. There is a mystique in North Africa of military coups, very unfortunate but there is a mystique. And this has been exploited by these characters, by the U. S. military...