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...determine the actual cost, after all, is to raise salaries and see if enlistments increase. The ratio of Negroes in the army would probably not rise fantastically, since mental and physical tests would no doubt exclude a disproportionate percentage of members of disadvantaged minority groups. As for coups d'etat, they are usually led by officers, not enlisted men, and there is no reason that reliance on voluntary enlistments would significantly alter the composition of the officer corps...
...family, which for 31 years has, in one way or another, ruled Nicaragua. Last week, on the eve of an election that promised to install as President a third Somoza, chubby ex-General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Jr., 41, the opposition tried its best to trigger a coup d'etat. The result was riot and death for Nicaraguans and a narrow escape for a handful of foreigners...
...been proving its incapacity to deal with our numerous national problems, was bloodlessly overthrown by military coop. This was long overdue, given the chronic economic chaos, the growing social conflict, and the increasingly disruptive administrative disorder which racked the Illia Administration. Nobody in Argentina complained against the coup d'etat. On the contrary: there occurred a widespread feeling of relief and hopeful optimism. The Revolution, carried out by the heads of the Armed Forces to lead the country at a moment of national crisis. Ongania's government has since received spontaneous support, or at least acceptance, from meet...
...growth and personal fulfillment, as Americans fervently believe, then Western Europe is in a bad jam. So warns Raymond Poignant, 48, who is a graduate of the tough Ecole Nationals d'Administration, a top French educational planner, and a judge of administrative law at the Counseil d'Etat (France's highest tribunal). His comparison of the educational systems in Western Europe, the U.S. and Russia has just been published under the auspices of the six Common Market countries...
Harvard is a feudal institution. Despite a bewildering number of nominal monarchs and conseils d'etat--the president, the overseers, the corporation, the deans and their secretaries--real power rests with departmental baronies, lorded over by the various chairmen. If the institution moves, it is the barons who move...