Word: consistence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ambassador Dubček, who initially resisted the appointment, will find few pressing diplomatic problems between Ankara and Prague. The embassy has only a seven-man staff, and Dubček's main duty will consist of overseeing Czechoslovakia's $44 million in trade with Turkey. Meanwhile, the campaign against liberals continued in Prague. Josef Smrkovsky, the former president of the National Assembly who was Dubček's closest ally, was stripped of membership in the federal legislature, his last state function. Ten other liberals were also forced to resign, thus virtually completing the purge...
...proposals that he sent to Congress last week-and so they were. While his message reaffirmed the nation's 35-year-old commitment to freer trade, the President sought only minor new authority to cut tariffs. In effect, he promised that any Nixon Round of trade negotiations would consist only of hard-headed international horse trading...
...fellowships activities are generally informal and personal, not church-oriented. Fellowship meetings-the closest approximation to formal services-consist primarily of spontaneous thoughts and prayers. Students play guitars to accompany folk hymns...
...Danish scientists working above the Arctic Circle at a remote encampment 120 miles east of Thule. For several years, they drilled through the 4,500-ft.-thick Greenland icecap, gathering cores, or cylindrical samples, that provide a remarkably accurate record of Greenland's weather. The cores consist of layers of ice, each representing a year's precipitation. They have remained virtually unchanged for centuries. By analyzing these layers, scientists have been able to reconstruct a climatic history that reaches back for 100,000 years...
Department chairman Roger Brown will choose the committee, which will consist of four faculty members and two graduate students, from within the department...