Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One theory of presidential strategy has it that any new White House resident must stamp his signature on the times immediately or risk losing forever the chance to do so. Nixon construes his circumstances and opportunities differently?and with cause. He wants what one adviser calls "studious momentum." He is...
In Lebanon, Premier-designate Rashid Karami had been thwarted for more than a week in his efforts to put together a new government in the wake of the Israeli commando attack on Beirut's airport. Stymied in his attempts to satisfy all of Lebanon's myriad religious-political...
Two decades ago, when West German rearmament in the face of Communist expansion was being debated, the country's youth expressed its opposition in a protest movement called ohne mich (count me out). By the time Bonn finally established the Bundeswehr in 1956, the movement had virtually evaporated, but...
There are more serious complaints: despite Tubman's economic gains, a large number of Liberia's 1,000,000 people still eke out all too meager an existence while the heirs of the old elite and government officials live handsomely. The 1969 austerity budget of $61 million, for...
Physicians are naturally ultracautious about giving an addictive drug to known addicts. So Drs. Dole and Nyswander began conservatively, with small numbers of patients. They insisted then, and still do, that the addiction must have persisted for four years, that all patients have records of arrests as a result of...