Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soften the adverse impact of Indochina on the U.S. is the Moscow-Peking rivalry. Fearing Soviet influence in Hanoi, Peking may oppose North Vietnamese domination of Cambodia and Laos. Peking may also be uneasy because a complete U.S. withdrawal from the region might tempt the Soviets to try to fill the vacuum. "What will happen if the Soviet Union asks the Vietnamese to use Cam Ranh Bay as a naval base?" asks a senior Washington China watcher. "Remember, that is where the Russians refueled on their way to Japan to fight the Russo-Japanese...
Harvard has insisted that it could not find sufficient Indian students to fill the building, a claim Williams yesterday called "incredible...
...Professor Brimmer or myself. The proposal for a "national research center" was made by the McCree Committee to Review the Department of Afro-American Studies in October 1972. In its report, the Committee envisaged an institute which "could become a center for thought and scholarship and help to fill a void in quality research and publications on Afro-American Studies. This concept was endorsed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on January 16, 1973 in recommending "the establishment of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research on a Faculty-and-University-wide basis." The concept was further endorsed...
...present, less than one percent of PhD's in the country are black. Since professors of Afro-American Studies are likely to be black, and since the proportion of black PhD's is woefully small, an Institute which supports and encourages graduate students in the field will clearly fill a vital need. Moreover, as in the case of many newly established fields, it is important to encourage more research in Afro-American studies, a point that has been made by various black scholars...
There's something sadly cyclical about this theory. As things got worse at the Real Paper, the editor's job became less attractive. The less attractive the job, the harder it was to fill with a tough but fair editor who could bolster morale. Finally, the staff voted to make one of its new staff writers. David Gelber, the new editor. It was Gelber who was given the power to fire people in a more streamlined way, a power he used to dispose of the staff writer caught in the marital triangle. (He also fired film critic Stuart Byron...