Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heady talk of detente, it was still the duty of NATO to think about the possibility of war. After all, the cold-eyed planners could note, Moscow last week announced an 8.2% in crease in Soviet defense spending for next year...
...cool the nationalistic temper surrounding the bill, the State Department issued a strong formal protest; it reminded Canada that its own huge banking interests in the U.S. - including about half the lucrative Wall Street call-loan market - amount to some $1.6 bil lion and hinted at possible reprisal. The note did not find a welcome. When one high-ranking U.S. diplomat explained the U.S. position in Ottawa, he was told, "Don't be a bloody fool...
...note from the Board saying that one is "required to withdraw" is a little less permanent. A student who has been required to withdraw for disciplinary reasons is usually permitted to return after a semester or two. "Severance of connection" means the same thing, but is issued for academic and not disciplinary reasons...
...note that the Crimson of December 5 suggests that I "advised the administration against making concessions to FSM," while I was a professor at Berkeley. This statement is a total and complete untruth. My general position on the matter which I stated on a number of occasions publicly at Academic Senate meetings and in one case at a talk to the Graduating Coordinating Committee of FSM was reported by the California Monthly as follows...
...number of occasions in conversations with various university administrations I pressed them to make major changes in the rules in the direction requested by the FSM. I should also note that in November 1964 I agreed to serve as a faculty advisor of the Cited Students Organization, an organization established by FSM members who had been cited for violating campus rules by setting up illegal tables...