Word: jure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morgan contends HEW should no longer require detailed desegregation planning from North Carolina. He argues that the state's history of de jure segregation-the basis of HEW'S demands-has become legally irrelevant. If upheld, Morgan's argument could undermine university desegregation agreements negotiated by HEW with Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Virginia...
...leaders of today's women's movement are alumnae of women's colleges who credit their alma maters for shaping their feminism. Graduates of these schools who are public officials or corporate officers--in greater numbers than women from coeducational schools--did not succeed against de facto or de jure discrimination by being ladylike. Such education is hardly a failure...
...that the British, having got burned over Rhodesia before, would be content to let the U.S. take the responsibility if a last-minute hitch should develop. At a press conference, Kissinger was asked what would happen if the Rhodesian problem should be turned over to Britain, as the de jure colonial power, and then fell apart. "We'll get the blame," Kissinger grinned...
...Witherspoon spared the College of New Jersey from the chaos that has recently enveloped campuses with less enlightened administrators. King's College in New York is still splitting its president's salary between two men-the president pro tempore, the Reverend Benjamin Moore, and the president de jure, the Reverend Myles Cooper. An ardent Loyalist, Cooper has been residing in England since he escaped from an angry mob of Patriots last year by climbing over the college fence and fleeing half-dressed to the Hudson's River bank, where he hid until taken aboard a British manofwar...
...Paris. Yet the fighting never really stopped; nor were Saigon and the Communists ever able to agree on how to carry out some of the accords' major provisions. They never exchanged maps delineating areas under their respective control (which would have recognized each other's de jure rights in those areas); they never set up the National Council of Reconciliation and Concord, which was supposed to have organized national elections; they never designated points where their forces could receive replacements of supplies. When Viet Cong troops showed up at assembly points for resettlement in Communist-held areas, government forces often...