Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REFORM SYNACOCUE...
...swing away from the direction of their predecessors, in an effort to appease whatever faction was left most dissatisfied by the previous administration. Echeverria, for example, was considered a conservative before assuming office; but he launched a leftist "democratic opening" to defuse the mounting pressure for social and economic reform that had exploded into riots and bloodshed during Diaz Ordaz's regime. López Portillo, in contrast, has worked hardest at wooing disaffected conservatives who were angered by Echeverria. But he has also sought to create new opportunities for opposition political parties?without, of course, threatening the P.R.I.'s overwhelming...
...hands of departmental heads then, the legislation is a dead letter. But the reforms did set up a student-faculty committee to review regularly the tutorial program and report discrepancies to the dean's office. These committees must act forcefully, persistently and without delay if tutorial reform is ever to benefit Harvard's students...
...When we talked about revolution and reform in the '60s, our male collegues thought we were talking about taking over the radio stations and the t.v. networks. They didn't know we were talking about more than that," Steinem said...
...peace to the ancient mountain kingdom. Afghanistan has been in continuous turmoil since Taraki came to power, in April 1978, following a coup in which former President Mohammed Daoud was gunned down in Arg Palace. Taraki's Marxist Khalq (masses) Party promptly launched a radical program of social reform and land redistribution. The policy met with violent resistance from the country's Islamic tribesmen, who make up some 85% of Afghanistan's 17 million people. Loyal to their old feudal leaders and enraged by the new, "godless" regime in Kabul, Muslim guerrillas launched a civil war that...