Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Class of 1980, are still landmark steps for the Harvard-Radcliffe community. If they are approved by the Faculty, the Governing Boards of Harvard and the Radcliffe Trustees, both institutions will have finally taken the steps that make total corporate merger and the eventual equality of women inevitable. Progress toward these two goals will undoubtedly continue to be all too slow, but the Strauch proposals would at least commit Harvard to a program that must eventually have equality as its outcome...
...have ended by now. Any American aid the Congress approves will only go to maintaining an unpopular, corrupt regime and forcing an inevitable loss of life. In fact, it is precisely the rigid and self-serving nature of the American policy which is responsible for the "bloodbath" now in progress in Phnom Penh. To be sure, the Khmer Rouge shelling of civilian sections of Phnom Penh is a reprehensible act, but the prospect of a "bloodbath" in Phnom Penh is more likely if Congress approves more aid than if not. The Khmer Rouge are fighting a war against their...
Later he said: "There is no erosion of support for Israel in the polls or in Congress. Yet there is talk of erosion of support for Israel. I think it's a feeling of impatience, of wanting progress...
...warned that "there may be erosion of support if Americans grow weary and come to believe that Israel is the obstacle to progress toward peace." He urged Israel to "pursue an imaginative and flexible policy." In gentler words, that was Percy's advice against intransigence. "All options are freely discussed in Israel," Percy observed wryly. "But apparently you can't do it here." Senator Buckley agrees: "Among many Jews, if you aren't 100% behind their position, you are anathema...
...lose" Cambodia; that if we do, the rest of Southeast Asia will "fall"; and that our allies will all panic if we cut off the aid. In yet another throwback to the 1960s, a group of six U.S. Representatives recently flew to Vietnam and Cambodia to check on our progress...