Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tuesday afternoon, the Kenya radio calmly announced that the President had died nine hours earlier and that Vice President Daniel Arap Moi, 54, would be sworn in immediately as Acting President for 90 days. The public reaction seemed curiously muted, in part because any discussion of the presidential succession had long been regarded as treasonable. But more than that, there was a sense of uncertainty at every level. Government officials discreetly asked friendly embassies about the protocol for a state funeral. As a shy domestic servant explained the sudden loss, "It's like going on a ship from the shore...
...caught up in the controversy over the Mau Mau. After a series of terrorist murders in 1952, the colonial government ordered his arrest and charged him with being the mastermind behind the Mau Mau organization. He was convicted in a sort of political show trial and sent off to nine years of detention and restriction...
...concentrated in mass-production industries, where union jobs are threatened both by more efficient manufacturing techniques?it takes fewer workers every year to make a car or a ton of steel?and by a transfer of some operations to the largely nonunion Sunbelt. For example, General Motors has opened nine plants in the South since 1973?and kept the United Auto Workers...
...other quaint U-Hall tradition; it changes hands now and then when students here get mad enough about something, like they did nine years ago about Vietnam, etc. Sometimes students just sit down in front of the building and prevent access to it, as they did last year to protest the University's policy of retaining investments in firms with operations in South Africa. When there is a protest to be held, it is a tradition to hold it at University Hall, but don't expect the building or its inhabitants to pay much attention...
...with this philosophy, but thankfully there are few ways they can change it. As a financially independent newspaper, The Crimson can control its own editorial policies, often to the dismay of the "authorities." Lacking direct control, they can only try to retaliate, in good capitalist fashion, through the market. Nine years ago, when Crimson editorials protested the University administration's brutal handling of a student strike, the "authorities" encouraged the formation of a new, "conservative" alternative, The Independent. Yet over the years The Independent, too, became sometimes critical of the administration, and now the Faculty's bitter laughter...