Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday, the Faculty Committee on Administration issued a statement registering "concern that the IFC-JC conducted an improper and inadequate investigation and took no punitive action. The statement continued: "The Committee on Administration will take direct jurisdiction in future disciplinary cases involving fraternities...
...groups acquire dignity only through collective action. Both words, collective and action, are almost by definition anathematize to the conservative tradition. They may be incompatible, in fact, with the whole concept of individual autonomy. No one has yet proved that decentralized direct democracy and liberty are consonant. But once again the experiment is being tried, and its promise and excitement lends the New Left an importance in American politics that the New Right will probably never match...
...telephone interview, Freund emphasized that direct election would not only be more democratic but could be expected to "spread political concern and activity more evenly than at present...
Such a system, he said, "would tend to diminish the importance of cohesive minority blocks in large states, which would not then be the great prize of the present. Thus, by eliminating the "winner-take-all" principle and thereby increasing the importance of all votes, direct election would "stimulate opposition parties in present one-party states...
Outside his direct area of responsibility but closely responsive to his needs are two other sizable forces: 1) the 150 warships and 70,000 men of the Seventh Fleet on station in the South China Sea, and 2) the mushrooming U.S. military establishment in Thailand, with seven fighter squadrons, 12,000 men, and more on the way. To supply them, the U.S. is not only building facilities at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam, but has also laid in a storage area at Korat with enough supplies to outfit a combat brigade-just in case Red China makes good...