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This would overturn the ruling, voted by the Faculty in 1927, which requires courses regularly open to freshmen to continue to meet during the last two weeks before examinations. It would not necessarily affect those upper-level science courses which do not observe the reading period...
Blunt Saying. On a motion of censure against the government, the opposition piled up an impressive 207 votes, only 70 short of the number needed to defeat the bill and overturn the government. But the opposition was stronger in numbers than in cohesion: the 207 votes came from a coalition stretching from far right to far left, from men who, on most issues, hate each other more intensely than they dislike De Gaulle. It represented, nevertheless, the most defiant gesture by Parliament since De Gaulle took power...
...later, "was that of the then Major Marcos Pérez Jiménez," a short, awkward man with "thick tortoise-shell glasses and a stutter." Despite widespread belief that Medina was on the road to democracy already, Betancourt conspired with Perez Jiménez, the future dictator, to overturn President Medina. By the terms of their compact, Betancourt, head of what was by then a strong, left-oriented political party, became Provisional President...
Under this unseemly quarrel lay a bold plan of maneuver: Grivas, who dreams of himself as a kind of Greek De Gaulle, hopes to use Greek passions over Cyprus as a lever with which to overturn the Athens government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis. Last week, driven to plain talk, Makarios publicly said as much. "From the moment Grivas decided to enter Greek politics," declared the Archbishop, "he did not see the Cyprus question with a clear eye." But plainly worried that Cyprus' hard-won independence settlement might be endangered by Grivas' demagoguery, Makarios also began seriously considering...
...Middle East: 1) the immediate one of ending Western-sponsored defense pacts and neutralizing the area, and so creating what Leninists call a "zone of peace"; 2) the ultimate, but much more ambitious aim, of turning the Middle East into a "zone of socialism." Last summer's sudden overturn of the pro-Western regime of King Feisal and Nuri asSaid in Iraq radically changed Russian aspirations. An Iraqi Communist Party emerged intact from Nuri's jails and from underground and successfully joined with Kassem in opposing the merger of Iraq and the U.A.R. on Nasser's terms...