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Dates: during 1970-1979
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World War II consequently sparked America's recovery, leaving behind a legacy which has shaped the contours of U.S. foreign policy since then. First, a stronger system of institutional relationships was immediately deemed necessary to prevent the recurrence of such costly conflict among industrial powers...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: From 'Manifest Destiny' to Vietnam | 11/16/1973 | See Source »

...accurate in many respects, but it was flawed in one critical way. Lenin saw that imperialism benefited only the capitalist class, and he assumed, following Marx, that the working class of European countries would recognize their bonds with each other and with the Third World. Thus they would prevent the outbreak of the coming war. Events initially seemed to bear him out: as the tempo of international crisis in the early years of the century became more brisk, the Second International of European socialist parties proudly and defiantly passed resolutions calling upon its members to resist imperialism, the armament race...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Imperialism: Then, and Now | 11/16/1973 | See Source »

...American Movement intends to continue its opposition to the military at Harvard. We urge all Radcliffe and Harvard students to join us in our efforts to prevent the return of ROTC to campus. Steven Carlip '75 member...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOK AND ROTC | 11/13/1973 | See Source »

...offensive drives of the Boston College players tested Harvard goalkeeper Ben Bryant time and time again, but he performed very efficiently to temporarily prevent B.C. from evening the score. But eventually the B.C. booters did manage to tally another point on a wide shot to the corner away from Bryant...

Author: By Randy K. Mays, | Title: J.V. Booters Hold B.C. to Tie, 2-2 | 11/13/1973 | See Source »

...errant current, according to Fisheries Research Adviser C.P. Idyll. Writing in Scientific American, he places much of the blame on human greed. U.N. and Peruvian experts had long recommended that the fishing industry take no more than 10 million tons of anchovies a year; that catch would not prevent the fish population from reproducing itself annually. But in 1970 the fishermen caught a record 12 million tons, and almost 11 million in 1971. As a result, Idyll believes, the anchovy stocks are so depleted that they may take years to return to their original size-if they ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Acts of Man, Not God | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

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