Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five years ago, Peru's military leaders helped Fernando Belaúnde Terry become President, impressed by his promise of reform and a "new politics" for South America's fourth largest nation. Last week they brusquely reversed that judgment on the man who was once praised as Peru's Kennedyesque "architect of hope." Awakened, as he slept, by a burst of machine-gun fire, Belaúnde looked out of his window to find tanks outside the Presidential Palace in Lima. Some 50 Peruvian Rangers stormed into the palace and took Belaúnde into custody. Onlookers...
...fabric of Columbia was twisted and torn by the forces of political and social revolution outside the University. Columbia's geographic situation symbolzes the relation between white and black, affluence and poverty, youthful reform and established order. The University's need for physical expansion in an urban center creates inescapable tensions but its relations with the community had further deteriorated because of its apparent indifference to the needs and aspirations of its poorer neighbors. The handling of the gymnasium controversy thus came, even somewhat unfairly, to epitomize the conflict between the spirit of the civil rights movement and the attack...
This vital decision rests with the liberal and reform-minded students. They can save or destroy the institution...
...activist supporters of reform who voiced the grievances pressed by the rebels included many of the natural leaders among students--both political and intellectual leaders. They were deeply hurt by statements treat...
...group of students is continuously and rigidly intent on obstruction as a technique. As to S.D.S., contrary to what has been said about my remarks, I took pains to praise the S.D.S. for their concern and to applaud the general interest and activity of undergraduates in political and social reform. It was during my remarks concerning the very small number of the far-Left at Harvard that I made the statement in question...