Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. Russia originally agreed with the Arabs that Israel must withdraw to prewar positions before negotiations could begin, but now indicates that an Israeli declaration of intention to withdraw is sufficient at the outset. Israel, realizing that the return of Sinai to Egypt would enhance Nasser's prestige, will trade it off only in return for face-to-face negotiations with the Arabs...
...Israel agrees on two main points, this will solve the problem. The points are land-withdrawal from all occupied territory-and people-the Palestinians must have the choice of returning to their homes...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson has had to guide his ship of state through some tumultuous storms, but, compared with recent weeks, those voyages must seem to have been made on a millpond. Wilson's Labor Party was routed last week for the third straight year in local elections. Newspaper polls showed that if a general election were called now, the number of Laborites in Parliament would fall by two-thirds. Finally, after quelling a "mini-mutiny" by Labor backbenchers, Wilson was nearly nibbled to death by dentures...
...campus disorders have incited many state legislatures to consider repressive measures, some well intentioned, some reminiscent of the know-nothingism of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Clearly, the political university must be viewed with grave misgivings. Writing in The Public Interest, Robert A. Nisbet, a sociologist at the University of California, states the problem: "The university is the institution that is, by its delicate balance of function, authority and liberty, and its normal absence of power, the least able of all institutions to withstand the fury of revolutionary force and violence...
Three days of disruptions and bloody racial battles, the burning of the student auditorium and "the intrusion of politically motivated outside forces" persuaded Gallagher to quit. "A man of peace, a reconciler, a man of compassion must stand aside for a time and await the moment when sanity returns, and brotherhood based on justice becomes a possibility," said Gallagher. Other presidents of public colleges, equally subject to racial strife, could only regard his defeat with foreboding...