Word: creation
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...indefatigable Lane has been largely responsible for convincing influential blacks that the King case needs official restudy. He persuaded King's widow Coretta that there was unspecified new evidence warranting an investigation. Her support influenced the Congressional Black Caucus to push creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Incredibly, when that committee was first set up, it offered the job of chief counsel to the totally biased Lane. Even he realized his acceptance would destroy the investigation's credibility, and the job was offered to Richard Sprague. The highly independent Sprague sought an unreasonably large budget, fought...
Since assuming the Afro chairmanship in January 1976, Eileen Southern, professor of Music and lecturer on Afro-American Studies, has implemented many of the policies designed to lend the department the air of respectability that the University has allegedly denied Afro since its creation in 1969. Besides the three examples cited above, Afro has launched a departmental newsletter (a quarterly named Nimba), sponsored its first General Education course (Social Sciences 7, "Introduction to Afro-American History"), and set up the department's first House seminar--Quincy 109, "Conflict and Mediation in Contemporary Africa...
Perhaps the most innovative proposal the task force offers is for the creation of a center for excellence in teaching that would serve as a resource center for faculty members anxious to improve the effectiveness of their teaching. Apparently, funds are already being sought for this center...
...greatest happiness is being able to live under the sun of the Stalin constitution, each article of which is sacred for us." So declared Izvestiya three decades ago. Last week there loomed on the horizon of Soviet citizens a new constitution-Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's proudest creation and the product of 15 years of labor and behind-the-scenes controversy...
...intriguing feature of the new constitution is Article 118, which allows for creation of a First Vice President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The provision may allow Brezhnev, 70, to take over the presidency without having to assume all the administrative and ceremonial duties carried out by Nikolai Podgorny before his ouster from the Politburo earlier this month (TIME, June 6). The constitution is also the first in Soviet history to assert the primacy of the Communist Party in the political life of the U.S.S.R., although this has long been manifestly the case. This declaration could strengthen Brezhnev...