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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alvin F. Poussaint, associate professor of Psychiatry, will resign his position as director of Student Affairs at the Medical School this summer in order to devote more time to writing and research...
Perhaps not. Although recruits are constantly being reminded of legion tradition, there are usually about 200 deserters at large at any time. As a commander once declaimed: "You legionnaires are soldiers in order to die and I am sending you where you can die." Today, the French army is not so quick to send them to that fate. Early this year a number of commandos left the legion -in order to join the Rhodesian army...
...interview last week in his spartan house in Qum, Sharietmadari told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn: "In the eyes of the nation, this incident is enough to cause a revolution in Iran. [The authorities] stopped cables being sent to me, but still the people came to me asking for the order to make a revolution. I advised them to remain quiet. But an attack on a Shi'ite leader will never be forgotten by the people." The roots of the recent trouble, charged Sharietmadari, lay in "many illegal actions in the past, such as torture, censorship of writings, the behavior...
...jousting knights on horseback. They introduce the huge exhibition titled "The Splendor of Dresden," an assembly of objects borrowed from the East German city, which for centuries has been famed for its collections of art and other treasures. Observed one 19th century writer: "Heaven and earth were moved in order to bring together on the Elbe whatever could still be pried loose...
...years in the history of American education. The two-and-a-half decades following World War II proved a tremendous boom period for higher education; the number of colleges and universities rose sharply, as did the number of students attending those institutions. Academic curricula were revised and expanded in order to keep pace with the weight of new knowledge; graduate education came into its own; faculty positions increased and faculty salaries recovered from the depressed level they had remained at during the first half of the 20th century. From the vantage point of the '70s, the years 1945-1970 seem...