Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called for the U.S. to begin a dialogue. What did it mean to be able to kill another nation ten or 100 times over? It is one of the many ironies that Kissinger today is in deep doubt about the treaty he helped launch, and has become a rallying point for what is potentially the most serious defection from treaty support-a range of moderate political leaders and their bright young aides who understand the complexities of the weaponry...
...brothers of guerrillas who are serving in the police or the security forces? "Why did there have to be a power struggle at all? Why wasn't power handed over as it was in Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania? Now the situation is pathetic. We are almost at the point of a bloodbath. The guerrillas are everywhere. We come in and stay. We are already bolder than...
...Soviet officialdom. "The Soviet Union cannot possibly compensate for the years they took away from me," he says. "If I keep on fighting, it is to help my comrades who are still in prison. The only way for me to help them is to hang on to a fine point of law, until the system gives...
Conceding that these are worthy goals, Shils nevertheless argues that they have become "seriously in conflict with the no less important ideal of the pursuit and acquisition of truth." His chief case in point: affirmative action programs affecting faculty hiring. Calling the power of faculty appointment the "most crucial" of academic matters, since it affects the quality of a university's research and teaching, Shils charges that Caesar "wishes to displace intellectual criteria and to diminish their importance in order to elevate ethnic and sexual criteria. [But] he has no right to intrude into the internal processes which enable universities...
Even if that claim is true--and no one is saying flat out that it is--organizers point out that the other half of the battle, strengthening the department, is far from...