Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vietnam is his immediate concern. He talks about it in his courses, writes about it in letters to the New York Times, and supports anti-war activities on campus. At a Faculty meeting soon after the Dow demonstration, he proposed that a student-Faculty committee be created to discuss the University's role in the war. Elections of student delegates are about to begin now, and soon the committee will be a reality...
True to the Palfry style, the school divided up into small groups to discuss smoking and the question of "maturity and immaturity" among the students as a correlative. Also true to Palfry style was the faculty's concern over the students' decision to meet separately from the faculty. The faculty feared that the rapport between students and faculty might be breaking down...
Specifically, the Premier came to the U.S. to discuss America's retention of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, both of which were Japanese possessions before World War II, and have remained persistently sticky political issues in Tokyo. Sato won a promise that the Bonins would be returned, probably within a year, and that the status of Okinawa would be studied. In return, he assured Lyndon Johnson of his government's firm support for the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia...
...that devaluation alone is not enough. Chancellor Callaghan indicated that the government would couple it with enough muscle at home to ensure a turnabout into the black in the balance of payments of "$1.2 billion a year." The giant Trades Union Congress was due to meet this week to discuss voluntary wage restraints, essential to ensure that a new round of wage and price in creases does not quickly nullify the gains of the devaluation. But the feeling abroad was that Wilson had devalued as a purely domestic political move, being unwilling to suffer the political consequences of imposing...
...known as the National Liberation Front, which has won the support of the Federation's 9,000-man army. But even as N.L.F. President Qahtan al Shaabi-who may become the country's first head of state-prepared to meet the British in Geneva this week to discuss the transfer of power, a rival terrorist group, FLOSY (Front for the Liberation of South Yemen), threatened to contest the N.L.F. takeover with violence...