Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appear as a martyr in the fight against white imperialism, and his popularity among the 90 per cent Negro population would increase. Martyring Duvalier would at once heighten Haitian hostility to the United States and at the same time hinder, if not actually cripple, any attempts at internal reform...
...commandant of the Ankara War College, Turkey's West Point, Colonel Talat Aydemir last year decided to treat his cadets to a sort of after-hours seminar in current events. His subject was the slow pace of government reform under Premier Ismet Inonu. To speed things up, Aydemir, 43, a tough ex-artillery officer, suggested that the lads support him in an armed rebellion against the shaky Inonu regime. But everyone flunked the final exam in Insurrection I-an abortive coup led by Aydemir in February 1962 that fizzled out in six hours. Teacher lost...
This week the government presented an ambitious program of social and economic reform to the National Assembly, and the perennial question of how to pay for it once again came to the fore. Of course, De Gaulle could always imitate the Anglo-Saxons and send tax evaders to jail. But then how would he raise the revenue to build all those new prisons...
Most of the witnesses at last week's Senate Commerce Committee hearing cited the wastefulness and expense of the U.S. time snarl. Chief pressure group for reform is the year-old Committee for Time Uniformity, whose chairman, Robert Ramspeck, disclaimed efforts to force Daylight Saving Time on everybody (as in World Wars I and II). "What we do urge, however, is that such jurisdictions as do observe D.S.T. should, in the interest of uniformity, begin and end D.S.T. on the fourth Sundays of April and October of each year...
California's reform fits the conservative principles of the state's self-styled education "reformer," Max Rafferty, the back-to-basics new superintendent of public instruction, but he had nothing to do with bringing it about. It is mainly the long-planned work of Tom Braden, 45, a wartime OSS-CIA man who went on to become an English professor at Dartmouth, his alma mater, and is now editor-publisher of the Blade-Tribune in Oceanside. Rafferty rooters recently flooded Sacramento in a vain effort to stop Braden's reappointment to the state board of education, apparently...