Word: counteractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the standing room in 2 Divinity Ave, yesterday, to see an NROTC-sponsored showing of a movie prepared by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The film. "Operation Abolition," shows "communist-inspired" students demonstrating last May against the Committee's San Francisco hearings. Its aim is to counteract the recent movement among certain liberal groups to abolish the Committee...
...last week, Sweden's Premier Olof Palme called for some way "to counteract technology's multiplication of the power to destroy." British Prime Minister Edward Heath warned in the same forum: "It may be that in the decade ahead of us, civil war, not war between nations, will be the main danger we will face." During a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, Richard Nixon said that the ubiquitous terrorism was "an international disease...
Denouncing the Middle East cease-fire as a "political fraud," China has carried on secret talks with the Palestinian commandos, who are opposed to a truce with Israel. China supports ongoing conflict partly because it wants to counteract any Soviet-American cooperation, partly because it wants to appear as the champion of revolutionary forces. Chou received a delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Peking last week, and the Chinese chargé d'affaires in Baghdad has reportedly promised the guerrillas unlimited aid. Chinese aid so far has consisted mainly of small arms that are shipped to the Iraqi...
...haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building a $10 million monument to Lumumba near the capital...
Federal law forbids discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sex. Any university receiving federal money found guilty of such discrimination must, the law says, "take affirmative action... to remedy the effects of past discrimination or to counteract discriminatory barriers to equal employment opportunity." Failure to act could cause the loss of those federal contracts. To Harvard, this means $60 million...