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...headmaster and the board decided that the trustees should examine student concerns as well as finance and investment," Schell said. "This isn't a move to quell any rising student opposition. They just think I'm closer to the students than they are," he added...
...same week Las Vegas had to call up the Nevada National Guard to quell a racial disturbance and the bureaucracy announced that unemployment had jumped to 4 per cent...
Russian involvement in Sinkiang dates to the Czars. In the mid-19th century, Alexander II sent troops into northwestern Sinkiang to quell a Moslem revolt. An 1881 treaty restored part of the area to China, but Russia retained a large hunk. Stalin expanded Soviet influence in Sinkiang by using Soviet consulates and cultural centers for propaganda. In 1944, Moslem rebels financed by Moscow set up the East Turkestan Republic in Sinkiang. Up to the time Mao Tse-tung won control of China, the Russians were trying to establish Sinkiang as an independent republic...
Under a soft, woolly tam-o'-shanter, San Francisco State College's stopgap president, S. I. Hayakawa, proved every whit as hardheaded as the cops in riot helmets whom he called to quell turmoil on his campus. Day after day, newspapers and TV showed the Japanese-American semanticist with his academic Bushido fully aroused. The result of all that public exposure, Pollster Mervin Field reported last week, is another instant political personality...
...other side of the academic fence, the Government of Harvard College never recognized any connection between long range cause and events in the disruption either. Their tactic for the short range was to quell the disturbances, and their attitude to the larger issues was to chalk the protests up to poor manners and bad tempers...