Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the fabric of seeming acquiescence and apathy that enshrouds not just race-related questions here, but also most of the other issues regular discussion of which would signal the existence of truly free debate. For all its professed devotion to liberal ideals of full debate, Harvard does not foster a climate in which free discussion--at least of important Harvard political issues--flourishes...
...courtroom floor, on the picket line, at the teach-in sessions when his colleagues of the cloister are silent. Lamont fought Harding and isolationism from his typewriter as an editor of The Crimson, fought for the right to bring dissenting speakers such as Eugene V. Debs, William Z. Foster and Scott Nearing to Harvard as chairman of the Union Undergraduate Committee. And Lamont continued to take on the Goliaths of reaction--Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Joe McCarthy...
With Colby's encouragement, eleven agency analysts, wearing lapel tags labeled CIA, attended the recent Chicago convention of the American Political Science Association. Explains Gary Foster, the agency's coordinator for academic relations: "We wanted to demonstrate that we are a functioning, bona fide research organization." In addition, Colby has permitted the agency's analysts to publish articles in scholarly and popular journals under their own names and CIA titles. At the same time, however, Colby has lobbied in Congress for a bill that would make unauthorized disclosures of CIA activities by past and present employees a criminal offense...
...problem that has no perfect answer. It would offer those draft evaders and deserters who want to return a way back into American life without being treated as criminals. At the same time, the Government, which was guilty of widespread deception during the Viet Nam War, would foster much needed post-Watergate reconciliation by showing charity toward its dissenting young men. "The purpose of amnesty is to forget the war and heal the wounds," says John Kerry, former head of the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, "and it may be that the way to do that is to demand...
...soon as the World Football League was born, former Crimson gridders like Rod Foster, Bill Craven, Ted DeMars and Eric Crone have had a chance to try out with the big boys. While only Foster and Craven have broken into the lineup in the new league, it is an indication that more will come...