Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of McNamara's critics acknowledge that he is tremendously able, that he has taken charge at the Pentagon as no civilian has done before him. But they insist that he lacks "heart," has lowered service morale by his treatment of military leaders, relies too heavily on the advice of his civilian "whiz kid" aides and ignores the service professionals. Among the most outspoken critics: > Hanson W. Baldwin, veteran military affairs analyst of the New York Times, lit into McNamara last March in a Saturday Evening Post article under the bitter title: "The McNamara Monarchy. " Wrote Baldwin...
...skirmishes with Duvalier's militiamen. "I have many friends who say they are with Duvalier now," he said, "but inside they are with Barbot." If he does topple Duvalier, Barbot promises free elections within six months. But then he, too, wants to be President, and if the people insist, he will run in the elections...
...employ academic freedom "to license oddball behavior" or to "give special sanction to a teacher's statements when made off campus or outside his field" or to "excuse incompetence, or exempt professors from criticism." College professors have not asked for the kind of exemption you describe. They do insist that they be protected from unwarranted assaults when they teach or do research in controversial areas, or when in the performance of their duties they take unpopular positions. Likewise they ask protection from attack by forces which would deny them the ordinary liberties to which all members of the civil...
...country. When the Peronistas were allowed to run last time, they won 35% of the vote, thus triggering the coup by the Perón-hating military. Now the military cannot agree whether to let Peronistas on the ballot, and on what conditions. Some politicians and liberal military men insist that Peronistas must be allowed to participate-provided they renounce the exiled Perón and run under strict electoral rules that would prevent them from winning any real power. Others are just as determined to keep them off the ballot altogether. As for the Peronistas themselves, they cannot decide...
...even the Abominable Snowman-whatever he is-confines his ambulations to the Tibetan plateau, 12,000 ft. below. Transported suddenly to its upper ridges, without an oxygen mask, a healthy man would die within hours-of physical deterioration. Tibetans call the mountain Chomolungma, "Mother of the World," and insist that it is the home of the gods. Why the gods would choose to live there, with Elysium at their disposal, is beyond human...