Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNTIL 1970, Chile was one of that vast majority of nations about which most North Americans have heard little. Eduardo Frei, Chile's Christian Democratic leader and president from 1964 to 1970, merited an occasional New York Times pat on the back for his support of the Alliance for Progress. But to the U.S. government and press in the sixties, Chile's seemed a stable government. Here was one place in Latin America where a legally elected president could expect to serve out his term in peace...
...better of him, he boarded a train to White River Junction with much distaste. By the time Fitzgerald arrived, he was sick, drunk and sleepless. And during the next few days Dartmouth College "honored" Fitzgerald by holding a seminar in which the professors criticized the script in progress. He left offended, and later attended a party at Alpha Delta at which he told everyone how great he had been until producer Wanger ordered him to leave. When Fitzgerald and Schulberg left, they retired to a coffee shop and dictated a parody script which began, "We fade in on the thin...
After years of incremental progress in token minority admissions, colleges began full-scale programs to bring minority enrollment to the level in the overall population. Whether rigid or merely implicit, these programs took the shape of a quota system for minority admissions. This practice has provoked an outcry of "reverse discrimination" from whites who say blacks and other minorities don't have to work as hard to get into college...
Unreconstructed forces are already at work in the Middle East to slow the progress toward peace talks. Iraq's government-controlled press last week characterized Cairo's agreement as leading to "complete surrender to Zionism." The Tripoli newspaper New Dawn, in an editorial reportedly written by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, called the recent negotiations a "theatrical play" produced by Washington and Moscow...
More dangerous insofar as progress goes, are the Palestinians on the Arab side and the right-wing opposition in Israel's parliament. Much to the embarrassment of Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who was in Egypt at the time, a rump session of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Executive Committee last week passed a resolution proclaiming "no to American peace and victory for the Palestinian people." A renewed campaign of terrorism could touch off Israeli reprisals, destroying Mrs. Meir's policy of accommodation...