Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter Ulbricht that joint plans be drafted for the formation of a German confederation, no longer insisting on free all-German elections or the tearing down of the Communist Wall as preconditions to the talks. Ulbricht is taken aback, but accepts when Erhard promises to renounce nuclear armament and maintain East Germany's socialist economy. Ulbricht wins congratulations from Pope Paul VI but is overthrown by a hard-lining Communist clique when public opinion in East Germany runs rampantly in advance of the formal negotiations and forces him to order the Wall torn down. After a countercoup, negotiations resume...
...scene was worthy of Goya. Out of Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral marched a procession of 120 angry, black-robed priests bearing a petition that preached against the government. From the other direction charged a crowd of grises-the grey-clad, club-swinging cops who maintain order in Spain. Before the melee was ended, blood flowed from anointed pates. It was another sign of the crisis that Spain is undergoing on the long road to reality...
...priests were supporting the cause of Barcelona University students, who have long been demanding "free associations" in their colleges as opposed to the Madrid-dictated "syndicates" that have long called the collegiate shots. The cops, on the other hand, were merely trying to maintain order-a major problem in Spain since the days of the Moors...
...good reason for hanging on to a base in New York, which is the nation's center of communications and advertising. It would give them more than prestige; it would be a way of writing off the costs of some of their other papers which also have to maintain offices in the city...
...ultimate resistance to Negro demands, I am convinced-certainly among Jews, but not Jews alone-is that they pose a serious threat to the ability of other groups to maintain their communities...