Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russian role in Peru continues to worry Washington, even though Lima has taken a definite turn to the right in the past year. Peru is still $500 million in hock to Moscow, and Peruvian pilots have been receiving flight training in Cuba from Soviet advisers...
Thebehali carefully steers clear of politics. Says he: "My job is to provide a better quality of life and better services to the people. I leave it to others to pursue the political role...
...That role is filled at the moment by the SSRC. Since the June riots, it has three times tried to force Soweto's 250,000 workers to stay home in a show of solidarity with student protests, but with only limited effect. Too many Sowetoans live too close to poverty to risk losing even a day's pay. The current mourning campaign has been more successful. SSRC plans its next show of strength this week, when Soweto's schools are scheduled to reopen. It has vowed to keep the township's 180,000 children home to protest the poor quality...
...recommendation only so that art and music people can say "here is one more committee that supports the arts." The tragedy of this reasoning is that the task force is not merely one more committee. As part of Rosovsky's major review the task force plays a much greater role in making policy than other Harvard committees. But this task force presumably did not want to play that role...
Federal Court of Appeals Judge Wade H. McCree, Jr. said he would prefer Carter give him the solicitor general spot rather than the number two Justice post because "the solicitor plays a major role in determining governmental policy and involves fewer administrative functions...