Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ashe said that the South African government was "too strong, too much in control" for a revolution or military intervention by other African countries to succeed. "The South Africans have an Israli mentality about defending their country," he said.
Bok's warnings on the dangers of federal intervention are impressive. No one wants a system of higher education in which admissions policy, research goals and educational philosophy are rigidly controlled by a single dictatorial department in Washington, D.C.
Yet Bok's vision is more disturbing for what it leaves out than for what it depicts. His report displays no concern for the very real problems that have occasioned government intervention, and no sense of the historical failure of private institutions to confront those problems without external pressure. The...
Harvard's faculty before affirmative action had been the preserve of white males. The information-gathering process triggered by federal requests in 1970 revealed a desolate situation: no female full professors, pitifully small number of blacks at all levels of the Faculty. Nor had Harvard done much to improve matters...
"Make no mistake about it. Smith is a bloody ruthless man with opponents," warns a member of the white opposition. But Smith's most recent displays of ruthlessness have sharply reduced the options available to his government. White Rhodesians' insistence on racial segregation and Smith's vacillation and calculatedly divisive...