Word: quos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people are speaking," Louise Day Hicks told reporters on the night of her overwhelming re-election to the Boston School Committee last November. Her implication was clear: here was a mandate for the status quo, for keeping the 23,000 Negroes in Boston's imbalanced schools where they were...
...surprisingly, ACCION's self-help ideal sometimes falls short in practice. The barrio is a transitory settlement of strangers, and the organizational sense often fades in the rapid population turnover. Moreover, not everyone is interested in progress; sometimes various politicians depend for their power on maintaining the status quo...
...racial matters has also delayed the building of a new English High School for over three years; the only available site has been in Roxbury. The Committee has yet to spend a cent of the $29 million bond issue, floated in 1963, for fear of disturbing the racial status quo...
...calls for French troops under integrated NATO command and the presence on French soil of NATO men and matériel. France would have been happy to negotiate reforms, but hélas, wrote De Gaulle, the other NATO countries were "all partisans of the maintenance of the status quo." Therefore France would soon unilaterally withdraw its own remaining forces from NATO commands. And NATO, in turn, would be required "to transfer out of French territory...
...return for rights to his nation's uranium deposits. In Malawi, Prime Minister Hastings Banda is a demagogue who has banned everything except starvation, remains arrogant only because his army numbers only 800 men and is still commanded by British officers who are happy with the status quo. And, when Bechuanaland becomes independent in September, Prime Minister Seretse Khama will have the ultimate guarantee against being overthrown by a military coup: Bechuanaland will have no army...