Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1964, the Sudan's regime has been dangerously weak but relatively democratic-unlike the militant dictatorships so common in the Arab World. Last week, at the beginning of the season of blazing desert heat, the Sudan's moderate but often corrupt civilian leaders were overthrown in a coup that was brought off with the suddenness of a Khartoum haboob. In the early morning, telephone and cable lines were cut, troop carriers rolled across the White Nile bridge and along Palace Avenue. Tanks took up positions at the front gates of the Republican Palace, built on the site...
...Common Market. Rocky's first stop this time out was Colombia, where reports of unrest and rioting on his arrival tended to be exaggerated. In Bogota, Nixon's envoy was briefed by President Carlos Lleras Restrepo and others who pointed proudly to their country's success in economic diversification. That achievement is symbolized by the reduction of the proportion of coffee in Colombia's export total from 70% to less than 50%. Still, Rocky's hosts complained that quotas and other restrictions have kept some of their new exports out of U.S. markets. One proposal...
Perhaps the most hopeful news from Latin America last week had nothing to do with the U.S. visitors: the formation of a common market by the five Andean countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The five agreed to work toward the elimination of internal tariffs within an eleven-year period and the erection of a common external tariff. This Andean common market represents an improvement over the largely ineffective Latin American Free Trade Association, formed in 1960 by ten Latin American countries. In several respects, the Andean experiment is similar to the nine-year-old Central American Common...
...charged, no teacher is paid, no grades or credits are given. Anyone who wants to teach a course merely lists it on a posted weekly schedule; if it draws students, it is a course. Classes take the form of discussion groups, usually meet once or twice a week in common rooms and student suites, and are led by teaching fellows or undergraduates themselves. Anyone can attend by signing up. Except for a few university secretaries, the New College's 150 to 200 students are enrolled full time at the "old college" as well...
...British are preparing to remove from the nation's statute books most of what remains of the great charter. Under a proposed statute repeal bill, some 200 British laws that are "no longer of practical utility" are likely to be scrapped soon by Parliament, including one "prohibiting common night walkers in the universities." More significant, all but two of the remaining twelve provisions of Magna Carta are also to be struck from the books...