Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party in Cuba, Latin American Communists broke with Moscow. But the most agonized reaction of all came from the Communist parties of Western Europe. In the early 1950s, the Western European parties abandoned their revolutionary tactics and went respectable. Since then, they have been trying, with only a fair amount of success, to convince voters that a Communist government does not necessarily entail a suppression of political opponents or loss of freedom. Dubcek's Czechoslovakia, if only it had lasted, would have been their best advertisement...
...idea of a plot to exterminate the Ibos. Some 30,000 Ibos who remained in Lagos, they point out, are in considerably better health than those trapped in Iboland. "I am sure that if the Ibos return to the fold and are prepared to be honest and fair," says Gowon, "Nigerians will forget the past and welcome them with warm hearts and open hands...
...USIA is equally unhappy. Expo 70 will be the first world's fair in Asia, and the congressional cutback will cause considerable loss of U.S. prestige. Last week architects and interior designers fought against deadline odds to come up with alternative plans for a new exhibit that will cost approximately $10 million. At the same time, a Soviet delegation dedicated the construction site of the $20 million Russian pavilion. In solitary splendor, it will soar 300 ft. high, just to the north of where its U.S. counterpart would have stood...
...questions before he came to a subject that he knew anything about. That was science. The other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort to be fair," says Harris, "but we are going to have to recognize differences because black students have not come up in the same cultural environment...
...little feudalisms in certain sectors of higher education and research have shown their senility." Faure concedes the validity of student complaints that the examination system is obsolete and arbitrary and that the facilities are inadequate and overcrowded. He is pushing for exams that would be more frequent but more fair, based on testing working knowledge of a subject rather than on rote memorization. He also has promised to provide space for 20,000 new students in Paris this fall...