Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Failure of the Front. For a time last winter, it seemed as if Argentina might find its way out of the Peronista dilemma short of another fight. In September, after a bloody skirmish, a constitutional-minded faction of the military, headed by General Juan Carlos Ongania, 48, a sensible professional soldier, took power and promised to hold elections in June-even let the Peronistas campaign. The puppet government of President José Maria Guido set out to form a "National Front" that would wed Frondizi's old Intransigent Radical Party (with 18% of the popular vote), the Peronistas (more...
Last week Harvard's former President James B. Conant suggested a way out of the dilemma, a way to national standards without onerous control and without "wholesale bribery of the states by the Federal Government." In a speech at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Conant envisioned a nationwide adviso ry council, approved by Congress, to be called the "Standing Group on Educational Strategy." Chosen by state legislatures, its 50-odd members would develop education "guidelines" on a national basis and persuade state lawmakers to adopt them. Chairman of the group would be a newly created U.S. Secretary...
John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House last night analyzed the present dilemma of Canada's major parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, stressing historical factors influencing their development...
...European ghettos. Backed by their own high-booted Jewish police, the councils compiled death lists of Jews and rounded up their own people for deportation to Nazi extermination camps. Refusal to help Eichmann's "transportation" experts would have meant immediate death, but always there was the agonizing moral dilemma: even under duress, was cooperation not betrayal? Last week Israeli Prosecutor David Libai gave the state's answer in the first trial of a Jewish policeman who served the Nazis. Its answer...
...point is not, of course, that the girls won't learn from Randall. They will, and have. Rather, Randall's style serves to illustrate the dilemma of a college in transition...