Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leadership" to end the war. He prides himself on his grasp of foreign policy and is expected to act pretty much as his own Secretary of State- after a thoroughgoing shakedown at Foggy Bottom. According to his staff, he will increase Government spending from the current annual level of $185 billion to $220 billion by the end of his four-year Administration. Defense spending would increase by $10 billion (to $87 billion), notwithstanding an anticipated halving of Viet Nam expenditures from the current $30 billion annual level. The extra funds would be used to finance a volunteer army and costly...
...Negrón López, thanks to a diversion of popular votes to Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella. Ferré is unabashedly pro-American; the art museum that he founded and funded in his native Ponce was designed to symbolize the interaction of U.S. and Hispanic cultures. When Puerto Rico's economic level reaches that of the poorest mainland state, Ferré has argued, his island will be ripe for statehood: it should soon equal Mississippi...
...litany of Liu's sins was reeled off at a meeting of the party's Central Committee late in October. Its expulsion of Liu was the highest-level purge in more than two years of merciless harassment of officials. When Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, Red Guards, recruited mainly from the closed-down schools and egged on by Madame Mao, Chiang Ching, succeeded in shaking the position of the entrenched party bosses. But the Guards got quickly out of hand. They began bloody battles with the more conservative workers and peasants and subdivided into...
...administrative level, however, the success of the course is not assumed...
...relationship between black students and Harvard administrators at this point was more a confrontation of wills than a meeting of minds. Initial Afro demands--a quota system built into the admissions policy, an endowed chair for a black professor, a rapid increase in the number of lower-level black faculty members, a Concentration in Afro-American experience--were immediately rejected...