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...recommendations were presented to a Departmental meeting in October, then to a meeting of the tutors, and were finally passed at another Department meeting later that month with only the senior faculty voting. Along with the substantive changes, the Department approved a motion "to reaffirm the requirement of a senior thesis for an honors degree in history...
...Press Secretary Bill Moyers, who told reporters: "The President in the last few weeks has felt that it was especially appropriate for more leaders of the world to know his views on Asia. This is a continuation of this Government's efforts to state and restate, affirm and reaffirm, clarify and reclarify our position on Viet...
Between Shastri's insistence that "Kashmir is ours" and Ayub's urgings that the Administration reaffirm its 1949 support for a plebiscite to determine the disputed territory's future, Johnson can hardly hope to send both men away happy. He will press hard, nonetheless, for withdrawal of both nations' troops from the explosive battle area. And, while Washington has emphasized in advance that it does not seek to dictate Pakistan's foreign policy, Johnson will make clear to Ayub that the U.S. will not continue to support his nation if it uses its rapprochement with...
More disappointing to many Catholics is that Vatican II did not settle pressing ethical issues-most notably, birth control. Since the Pope demanded that this problem be left for him alone to solve, On the Church in the Modern World does little more than reaffirm Catholicism's traditional opposition to contraception. Nonetheless, some progressives take heart from the facts that the text does assert that only parents have the right to decide how many children they shall have, and does not close the door to future change...
...apocalyptic migration that took 2,000,000 lives. Some 8,000,000 "expellees" remain in West Germany today, and though many have lost much of their fierce irredentist zeal, their presence is a constant reminder to the German government of the need to regain the lost territories and thus reaffirm the hereditary German Heimatsrecht...