Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Splits Within Splits. In the free world, Communist anger at Moscow is greatest in Western Europe, where Communist parties are strongest. Since these parties seek to gain power by votes, and not by revolution, a liberalizing Czechoslovakia was an excellent advertisement for the image of Communism that they wished to project. Now that the Soviets have shattered that benign image, these parties are understandably anxious to dissociate themselves from this aspect of Moscow's policy. Italian Communist Chief Luigi Longo. whose party is Europe's largest, flatly declared that the Communist movement no longer has "centralized direction...
Ever since they seized power 18 months ago, Greece's ruling colonels have waged a remarkably successful campaign to secure international acceptance of their stern rightist regime...
...Suicide? The Trier district attorney's office thought so, but it did not rule out murder. There was nothing in Ludke's record to indicate a likelihood of treason, but the federal prosecutor's office left open the possibility that he had spied for a foreign power...
...during the 260-hour eight-minute flight. Some of the spacecraft windows fogged over for still-unexplained reasons; an oxygen-flow sensor misbehaved and unnecessarily flashed a red light; batteries did not recharge as fast or as fully as expected; current overloads twice tripped circuit breakers, cutting off electrical power until the crew reset the breakers. The otherwise flawless performance was a tribute to the corrective program instituted by NASA and North American Rockwell Corp., Apollo's prime contractor, after the disastrous Cape Kennedy fire that killed three astronauts in January...
...report also urges the university to organize temporary ad hoc courses on such questions as Viet Nam or Black Power, now found mainly in student-run "free colleges." Without spelling out how to arrive at the answers, it also suggests that the university should frankly tackle major student concerns: "the problems of sex, the nature of love and the applications of ethics, morality, politics and law to life." This might tax a professor's teaching ability, but it should also prove rewarding. The study recommends that professors' promotions be based on an evaluation of their teaching skill...