Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corporation subcommittee will discuss the request--submitted earlier this month by the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN)--at its Monday meeting...
Despite the Independent takeover of the city council, Cambridge observers view the strong showing of liberal candidates in the school committee as endorsement of Cheatham's program of reform for the public schools...
Several suggested this week that the grievance committee replace the union as a vehicle for all financial reform efforts because the committee is recognized by the University and the entire graduate student body...
Still, Czech citizens continue to appear day after day at Palach's former gravesite to mourn the young man who became a symbol of Czech resistance to Soviet imperialism. They have not forgotten the reform era of the "Prague Spring" when Alexander Dubcek and the other liberal leaders tried to humanize the face of Czech socialism; they have not forgotten the Russian tanks that rumbled into their country in August, 1968; they have not forgotten the martyr, Palach, who immolated himself in a central square of Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet decision to deprive Czechoslavakia of self-determination...
...crisis arose in the Soviet empire. The Czechs began a program of reforming their political and economic institutions and loosening the constraints upon the Czech people's rights. No specific reform move seems to have provoked the Soviets to act; nearly all the reforms have been tried in other Eastern European states without Soviet intervention. But, the Czechs showed a dangerous tendency to want to run their own affairs--without regard for Soviet wishes. The Soviets paid a high price for the subsequent brutal repression. They stood exposed before the world as imperialist aggressors. But they paid the price gladly...