Word: breakup
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Just as the technetronic revolution has further divided rich from poor nations, so is it beginning to fracture the nation-state. But the result of the breakup is not likely to lead to One World. Brzezinski amends Marshall Mc-Luhan's thesis that the world is shrinking into a "global village." A village implies shared tradition and intimacy. Today's technetronic world resembles rather a "global city-a nervous, agitated, tense, and fragmented web of interdependent relations." To recover some sense of identity, people are desperately turning back to their origins in race or region...
...same time, the CRR, acting on an appeal by one student who had been suspended last month for taking part in the breakup of the Center for International Affairs Visiting Committee, reversed its decision and suspended the requirement to withdraw. The student will have to leave in the event of further misconduct...
...disruption occurred when 200 protesters entered the CFIA, forced their way past University officials to a second floor seminar room, and caused the breakup of the Visiting Committee meeting...
...only caucus now functioning in SDS. The New Left caucus has not met since the student strike last April, and, after the breakup of national SDS in Chicago last June, many of its members joined Weatherman and the November Action Coalition (NAC), two groups which have grown...
More significant than the repeal of the Cold War Resolutions is the breakup of the "bipartisan" coalition which has governed American foreign policy since World War II. Dissent on the left has either allowed or forced liberal Senators to split with the coalition. In former days, the Mathias resolution would have seemed treasonable. Congress feared to speak openly with the President because to do so would jeopardize "major national interests" or "let the troops down." Today Senators can even imply, if not boldly assert, that the President has usurped the Constitution...