Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians have so far been unable to convert much of it into solid political power. In an area that the West has often found difficult and unrewarding to deal with, the penetration also brings the Russians as many problems as opportunities. Still, the Russians think it important to establish themselves firmly in the Arab world-and that is just what they are trying hard...
Instead, the fact that North Americans alone possess the power to establish overall Peace Corps policy here strengthens their determinations to develop this country according to the formula which they assume made the United States great. The integers of that formula are community development, civic responsibility, personal hygiene. So they often try to impose their own North American structures--the mothers club, the Boy Scout troop--onto communities which have for generations been highly structured according to their own culture. They try to impose the idea of civic loyalty that one finds in stable middleclass American towns onto rapidly growing...
...Prime Minister has for some years been aware that various false and malicious rumors have been spread concerning his personal character and integrity. He has always considered it right to treat them with the contempt they deserved." Now, said Hogg, Wilson wanted to "make plain his determination to establish the complete falsity of these rumors...
...necessary component of a system such as this is a representative student government capable of formulating and expressing student opinion while maintaining the integrity of that opinion. In the past, Harvard student government (composed of the Harvard Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Policy Committee) has failed to establish a working relationship with students. Perhaps because of a pluralistic student body composed of many potential leaders or perhaps because the faculty has encouraged de-centralization by refusing to allow the "official" student government any meaningful, prestigious role, there now exist at Harvard a plethora of organizations all fulfilling functions which...
...scheduled to stand trial for conspiracy to commit treason, got out of jail in time to join his American wife and four children at their home in an Athens suburb for Christmas. The fifteen officers convicted in the 1965 Aspida conspiracy, which allegedly sought to depose the King and establish a neutralist socialist regime, were also released, as well as nineteen former members of the now disbanded Greek Parliament...