Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found it a deadening issue and has changed his ground to the National Defense Education Act loyalty oath and the future of Rindge Technical High School. He is particularly disturbed about the implications of NDEA for local school employees; under sections of the Act pertaining to guidance and foreign language training, the jobs of people hired by local school boards can become dependent upon willingness to sign the loyalty affidavit. "NDEA is not only a University problem," Barnes says, "and Cambridge citizens should understand how this obnoxious loyalty provision can apply to their schools...
...issue around the Yard. American students simply lack the sharp class identity retained by students of colonial and underdeveloped areas. College students in the United States no not rest as far above the general population in ability to decide political issues from an "enlightened" point of view as their foreign counterparts. While many Latin American and African student unions are important political factors in their own countries, NSA is only one of a number of "pressure groups," drawing its strength from the prestige of the individual student governments in the Association...
...reinterpretation of the nature of student problems progressed rather imperceptively throughout the fifties. Today the concept of student problems includes issues which affect students of foreign countries in their role as students. The furthest the definition has even been stretched was on the nuclear testing resolution passed by the Twelfth National Student Congress in August. The resolution was tied up with concern for international student issues...
Proponents of the broad interpretation of the "students as students" phrase on issues concerning students of foreign countries maintain that USNSA occupies a unique position in world affairs. They claim that because of its contact with other student groups, which assert considerable political pressure in their own countries, NSA has its fingers on the pulse of world politics. A former NSA International Affairs vice-president said that because of his contacts with foreign student leaders, the NSA files in Philadelphia had a more accurate picture of the Cuban Revolution and the Icelandic Elections than the State Department...
Ordered expelled by the Foreign Ministry, Langelle, the embassy's chief security officer, left by plane last night for home with his wife and three children. The deadline for departure was yesterday...