Word: branchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only describe as a state of apostasy. Instead of worshipping God and only God, instead of following and being true to the idea of Justice... they are not only doing the reverse, not only taking refuge in the most crude tribalism and worship of force, but literally cutting the branch on which they are sitting, I say to them: By your hypocrisy and double-thinking, by your condoning and supporting racism and oppression, you are bringing a calamity on your own heads. Everything that is done to Palestinian-Arabs, with your encouragement and support today, will be done to yourselves...
Harvard DSOC, originally formed by students working in the 1972 presidential campaign of Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), has participated in the J.P. Stevens boycott, and in political campaigns for Saundra Graham and Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.), Rachel Dewey '78 president of DSOC's Harvard branch, said yesterday...
...some extent, malaria's comeback results from overconfidence bred by the success of antimalaria drives in the 1950s and 1960s. From the southern U.S. to northern Argentina in South America, the Pan American Health Organization (a branch of WHO), UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development had cooperated with national governments in financing a massive extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale...
Observers also agree that the CIA played a far larger role in Chile than the U.P. expected, or than Americans were told about. The American intelligence agency--in cooperation with America's International Telephone and Telegraph Co., which feared the U.P. would nationalize its Chilean branch--funded rightwing and fascist groups that tried to provoke chaos, preparing the way for a junta whose major bid for support came in the guise of promoting security for the middle and upper classes. The CIA also paid small shopkeepers to hoard goods, and truckers--who comprise one of the best-paid sectors...
...Each branch of the University manages its finances individually but the Harvard Corporation may decide to loan the necessary funds to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Thomas O'Brien, acting financial vice president, said yesterday...