Word: reformists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eric ran a strong but unsuccessful race in the 1971 election with The Common Slate, which was instrumental in bringing in a new reformist superintendent of schools, Cheatham. He now has the added backing of Cambridge People's Party, the CCA, Cambridge Women's Political Caucus and CPPAX. His long term interest is in education, not political maneuvering, made explicit by his work at Centerpeace...
Then in 1924 another reformist, President Arturo Alessandri, who was also stymied by a conservative Congress, was deposed and exiled to Italy by a junta. The next few years saw a series of military coups and countercoups. After a period of dictatorial rule under Colonel Carlos Ibanez degenerated into economic chaos, Alessandri, by then a convert to the conservatives, was re-elected in 1932. Since then, the armed forces have generally been ruled by the theory that as long as the President kept to the constitution they would respect his authority...
Worse is to come, she predicts. The current penal-reformist notion of group therapy may be "withering on the vine," but the behaviorists are about to bloom. A $13.5 million Behavioral Research Center is due to open near Butner, N.C., early in 1974. Articles with triumphant titles like "Criminals Can Be Brain washed−Now&" are appearing. In the spirit of 1984, solitary confinement is referred to by some prisons as "the Adjustment Center," and ordinary cells are called "Behavior Modification Units." Beating is known as "Aversion Therapy." Upjohn and Parke-Davis maintain $500,000 worth of laboratories with...
...Paris daily Le Figaro, showed that the leftist coalition headed by Socialist Francois Mitterrand had dropped from 46% to 43% in its share of the popular vote. The governing Gaullists had 38% -up 1% from the previous week's results-while independent, middle-of-the-road reformist parties had 16% of the vote, a gain...
...hundred members, also believes in restoring Arab rights to at least part of Palestine. The spy arrests dramatized the existence of an element on the left that is opposed to the very existence of Israel. Editor Uri Avneri, who sits in the Knesset as leader of the radical reformist New Force Party, worries that more young Israelis might be drawn to this extreme view. "We are entering a dangerous period," he says, "partly because we have a Prime Minister who does not even recognize that there is a problem. She has lost all contact with young people...