Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many foreign statesmen greeted Nixon's election with equanimity and even pleasure, it was partly because of familiarity. In his eight years as Vice President and five years as a paripatetic counsel for Pepsi-Cola, Nixon had met with virtually every world leader and with hundreds of the most prominent politicians from Paris to Pnompenh. The Shah of Iran sent a congratulatory cable citing "our long relationship of cordial amity." Even Gamal Abdel Nasser of the U.A.R., which has broken diplomatic ties with the U.S., expressed good wishes...
...formerly split. Particularly hard hit was California Democrat Jesse Unruh, who had hoped to use his post as speaker of the state's assembly as a springboard to the governorship in 1970 but now faces at least two years in the humbler and less visible job of minority leader...
Hussein insisted on maintaining his authority. The fedayeen demanded an end to the curfew, and freedom of movement. The standoff came to an end when Sheik Akif al-Faiz, Minister of Communications and leader of the largest Bedouin tribe, threatened to withdraw his support if the king used Bedouin troops against the fedayeen. Hussein, under pressure as well from Saudi Arabia, which subsidizes Jordan's budget, promised to lift the curfew and to allow the fedayeen to keep their arms. In turn, they promised to keep their armed men off the streets of Amman...
...literature, however, Revolutionary Immorality is much more notable. It conveys with surprising force the staggering personal tragedy of Mao Tse-tung, a leader who has spent his lifetime designing one of the great political triumphs of history, and now seems to be systemically shattering his work...
...basic lack of concrete power is what rankles most in the hearts of the members. Even Jeffrey C.Alexander'69, the group's vice-president and unofficial radical leader, admits that the HUC has gotten better than ever before, although he quickly adds that the group has done so "only in the context of a powerless organization." What the radicals really want isn't having three non-voting students on Faculty committees, as the HUC proposed last spring, but a voting student majority on all groups dealing with student social affairs. They think the way to get this is through massive...