Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's Cabinet meets for the first time. The new President will probably also attend some of the first daily 8 a.m. staff meetings, to be presided over by White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz. High on the agenda: domestically, Carter's plans to reorganize the Executive Branch, reform welfare and stimulate the economy; in foreign affairs, a review of the negotiations over a new Panama Canal treaty and arms talks with the Soviets...
...presidential attempt to undercut their political strength in the Paris municipal council, where 36 out of 90 seats are currently held by Gaullists. In past years the office was hardly worth fighting over, since Paris mayors took orders directly from the central government. But thanks to a reform measure proposed by Giscard and enacted a year ago, the next mayor and city council-to be chosen in nationwide municipal elections March 13-will gain a major voice in the running of an international capital of 2.3 million inhabitants and with a budget of $1.4 billion. As a result...
...face it. The faculty, which barely, and I mean barely, mustered up enough votes to move the calendar back one week, just does not pay attention to the students, the ones most affected by their decisions. Their recent reform still fails to address the exam problem and the inconvenience of trying to compete for summer jobs with students who finish school in early May. (Heaven forbid that Yale do something right, and a lightening bolt plus two divine interventions should Harvard ever admit it.) Harvard's professors should extend themselves a little more for their students, and moving the college...
...early, meteoric rise as a close comrade of Mao's, but eventually tangled with the Chairman over agricultural policy. As party general secretary in the 1960s, Teng began backing away from Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward, and presided over a moderate program of economic reform. His gruff, authoritarian style as well as his pragmatic approach annoyed the Chairman, who once complained that Teng treated him "like a dead ancestor...
...charter's signatories and the list of those detained last week read like an alumnal Who's Who of the Prague Spring-the 1968 reform movement led by Alexander Dubček that was brutally crushed by Soviet troops. In addition to the Kohouts, the chartists include former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, former Politburo Member František Kriegel, former Party Secretary Zdenek Mlynar, Student Leader Jiři Mueller, Dramatist Vaclav Havel and the widow and son of Rudolf Slánský, the Czechoslovak Communist Party secretary-general who was executed...