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What would the effects of such a program be on the recipients and on the universities themselves? The universities certainly would profit. "A rise of $500 in tutition made possible substantially by an adequate loan program," Harris says, "would double salaries and re-establish the economic status of faculty at a level commensurate with the attraction of talent." There is one local drawback, however. If private business is not interested in taking on the program (which seems likely, since inflation would probably deplete much of the profit), the alternative suggested is the federal government. These two words are anathema...
...East, the French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality in this particular conflict a splendid chance to play procedural arbiter between West and East, and so to re-establish France among the top diplomatic powers. The situation suited lofty Charles de Gaulle...
...events in Algeria . . . broke out and developed in my name without my being in any way involved in them. Things being what they are, I proposed to form by legal means a government that I think could rebuild unity, re-establish discipline in the state, particularly on the military side, and promote adoption of a renovated constitution by the country...
...Pflimlin won "victory" after "victory''-including a committee vote approving his hastily drafted plan to revise the constitution so as to give the Fourth Republic stronger, longer-lived Cabinets. But when it came to the issue on which his government must stand or fall-its ability to re-establish control over the insurgents of Algeria-the only tactic Pflimlin found was to pretend that the insurgents were not really insurgents...
...four years the Dutch tried vainly to re-establish themselves in Indonesia. They tried it with two major military campaigns, which only proved that they could seize any city they wanted but they could not control the countryside. At one time (1948) Dutch paratroops captured President Sukarno and every member of his Cabinet except Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, who was in Sumatra and continued the fight. In 1949, worn down by Indonesian resistance and world opinion, the Dutch gave up. All of their old island possessions except West New Guinea became the Republic of Indonesia. Sukarno and his fellow revolutionaries...