Word: maintaining
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Active Part. In the long term, Washington will probably ask Japan to take a more active-and costly-part in the region's defenses. Even though the postwar constitution explicitly forbids Japan to maintain an army or navy, many observers feel that the world's No. 3 economic power-and the premier industrial country in Asia-should take a more active military role in the Pacific. In order to demonstrate that it is not withdrawing from the Far East, the U.S. may have to undertake some kind of forceful, symbolic action. It will certainly have to maintain...
DISC has proposed that students participate in the planning of the DuBois Institute, that the institute maintain ties to the black community, and that the institute be directly linked with the Afro Department...
...HARVARD wants to maintain the good community relations that it owes to Cambridge--a city from which it extracts more services than it replaces--then it must be open in formulating and presenting its development plans. Harvard must be willing to bargain in good faith and be receptive to community input on University decisions that affect surrounding neighborhoods. But Harvard's policy has not been one of candor. The University has not been all that frank or intelligent in its dealings with the community...
...Crimson reject this "vision of the independent scholar," what about the vision of the independent journalist? I have occasionally heard it said that The Crimson allows editorial sentiments to sneak into news columns. While I personally doubt this, I still must ask whether The Crimson wishes to maintain the ideal of objectivity for journalists which Mr.Garin denies for scholars. It would seem so, since The Crimson runs unsigned editorials under its masthead. But if the current editors of The Crimson do not repudiate the philosophy of their former political editor, a clear statement of the political interests which the newspaper...
...Slayton and Vance Brand joined Cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov and Valery Kubasov in practicing the maneuvering and docking of the two spacecraft. They crawled from one ship to another by passing through the "docking module" that links the spacecraft and acts as a decompression chamber (necessary because Soyuz and Apollo maintain different atmospheric pressures). The spacemen also rehearsed procedures they would follow in the event of such emergencies as a fire or loss of cabin pressure. At week's end the crews were preparing to leave for the Soviet launch center in Kazakhstan, which has never before been visited...