Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign organization, reports TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont, would lose them after glimpsing the operation at the Willard. Compared with the one-floor warren that passes for the Democratic National Committee and Hubert Humphrey's campaign headquarters across town, the Nixon show is a lesson in the power and effectiveness of supreme organization...
...decision to carry out swiftly the state legislature's directive to set up pilot projects for decentralized control of the public schools. Lindsay collided head-on with the autocratic school system, and especially with its dug-in unions of teachers, principals, supervisors and custodians. One measure of their power is the fact that in the past five years, only a handful of New York City's 60,000 teachers have been fired for cause. By last week all of them were at war with the mayor (see EDUCATION...
Forward Positioning. The NATO Council, which is the organization's highest policymaking group, declared that, apart from the unpredictability factor, NATO must take immediate action to cope with two new threats in Europe. One is the buildup of Soviet naval power in the Mediterranean that, according to NATO, last week reached a record high of 50 ships. The other is the forward positioning of Red Army troops in Central Europe...
...Fedayeen Power. Even those highly tentative talks have stirred the revolutionary feelings of the commandos, or fedayeen, who are adamantly opposed to dealings of any sort with Israel. They wield political power in Jor dan far out of proportion to their numbers, which probably total no more than 5,000 active terrorists. They have the fervent support of Jordan's 700,000 displaced Palestinians, who owe no particular allegiance to the Hashemite Hussein, and the open sympathy of many officers in the Jordanian army...
Conscientious Objector. By now, the boiling controversy has become an open struggle for power by the U.F.T., which fears that control of the schools is moving from the city's central board to local committees, and that the union is being weakened in the process. As he fights to protect his union, Albert Shanker is demonstrating that he is a shrewd and sophisticated student of the uses of power. A onetime Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Columbia, he is an admirer of Elijah Jordan, an obscure American philosopher who argued that institutions, not individuals, mold a society...