Word: directed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history, the Kremlin fears the Czech disease of freedom. The Vatican is impelled to ban the pill. Congress rejects effective gun regulation. Whatever the issue or nation, something loosely called the "establishment" resists aspiration and innovation. The global result is growing impatience with old political processes; a desire for direct action is inflaming minds and causing almost daily clashes that defy law and logic...
...Domestic Issue. To the Soviets, that was a threat far more direct than any matter of Marxist orthodoxy or ideology. From Czarist days, the Russians have sought to mold a buffer between themselves and Western Europe from the Baltic to the Black...
...effort to mollify the followers of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. Last week a group of party leaders proposed a Southern running mate for Humphrey, mentioning seven prospects by name.* Humphrey preferred to remain politely vague. Nonetheless, in Mississippi he is backing the biracial insurgent delegate slate, a direct slap at the old-time leaders. And last week he coined the term Nixiecrat to disparage Nixon's association with conservative Southerners like Thurmond, who led the Dixiecrat revolt...
Equally scandalized were France's three major labor unions, who are coordinating a protest and a possible retaliatory strike. The fired newsmen also got a cable of support from abroad, stating that "this repression constitutes a direct menace to freedom of information." The signers of the message: "The journalists of Radio Prague...
Franconia's teachers were angered by the trustees' failure to consult them about Ruopp's dismissal. A direct showdown came when the board let the contracts of two teachers lapse, despite a recommendation from a faculty committee that they be rehired. That led to the mass resignations of teachers and staff. Much to their surprise, the trustees accepted them all. Since a dozen more teachers had departed earlier, Franconia now faces the fall with only 20 teachers, half the number of last year's staff. No one knows for sure how many students will bother...