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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more and more campuses across the nation, student radicals have found a powerful new voice for protest: they have gained control of established college newspapers and turned them into journals of dissent...
...given the delegates 120 days to write a constitution; if they do not succeed in that time, he will disband the convention and arrange for a new one to be elected. Once a constitution is approved, a government will be installed, with the convention delegates making up the National Assembly. That could come as early as 1971. Yahya is convinced that a freely elected Assembly will work in Pakistan. "I have been trying to rehabilitate the nation's political life," he told Coggin, "so that I could hand over the government to the people's representatives...
Plainly, many of Japan's young people are headed for a break with some of the nation's most cherished traditions. Even the rebels, however, seem to suffer from a problem that handicapped their fathers: the inability to express opposition individually and in specific terms. A professor at Kyoto University recalled last week that when he invited individual students to challenge his statements or actions in the classroom, they would stand in tense and painful silence. When the students came to him in a group to scream their demands for reform, however, they were magically transformed. "Then," says...
When the 18-nation Council of Europe meets in Paris this week to consider whether to suspend Greece from the company of Europe's democratic nations, the issue that is certain to be uppermost in the minds of the foreign ministers is one that they cannot even mention in the debate. It is the torture of political prisoners in Greece. For the past three weeks, a 1,200-page report prepared by a special committee of the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commission has been in the hands of the member governments. After two years of investigations...
...this develops an hour of television drama that few viewers will have trouble identifying with, though its story is far from the lives of the nation's more privileged. There are the familiar dilemmas of childhood (stealing, lying, response to bullying), the familiar authority figures (mother, adult store owners, schoolteacher) and familiar emotions (fear, love, sorrow...