Word: council
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet troops in Cuba, what had not been known was the organization of those troops into a combat brigade. Clues and hints to that effect began appearing in the spring, as did reports that the number of Soviet troops was increasing. In March, for example, the National Security Council staff had asked the intelligence community for more information on Cuba. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had speculated that there must have been more Soviet activity on the island than was immediately apparent, primarily because some 40,000 Cuban troops were in Africa and a number of Soviet MiG-23s were...
...make matters worse, Castro may well ride the swell of his enhanced prestige straight into the Security Council, if the Cubans succeed in obtaining the rotating Latin American seat; their chances of doing so are rated good by many diplomatic observers (the holder of the seat is elected by the General Assembly every two years). If Castro should go to the U.N. this fall, he will appear as the foremost leader of the Third World - and the firebrand spokesman for a kind of global anti-Americanism...
...Freshman Council on the Arts, headed by Evangeline M. Morphos, will offer a program similar to Learning from Performers because Morphos believes freshman are often left out of the freshman arts office program The freshman arts office also provides discount rates on tickets to many cultural events in Boston as well as funding for freshman art projects. Between the offices of Morphos and other undergraduate student groups, most students will find enough to keep them satisfied. You may have to pay for them--not very much--but they're there...
...Arts, believes Brustein is "pretty powerful and persuasive and might change the concept that art is something you do with your hands and not your brain." Ackerman cites inconsistences in the arts policy: While Carpenter Center provides several studio courses for credit, other rigorous, programs given by the Arts Council or other arts groups which are very similar to VES courses do not receive official sanction. "Theres no philosophical justification for this," Ackerman says...
...Washington, D.C. The National Security Council has been hastily assembled to debate the American response to the breaking crisis in Asia. The president says, "Now where shall we start, gentlemen?" An aide raises a hand and breaks the silence, saying. "Mr. President, I believe we should formulate a series of balance sheets, starting with our adversary's partisan perceptions and leading to a yesable proposition we can present him with...