Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since financial considerations play a large role in President Bok's ruminations on investment policies, we may ultimately be able to begin to affect these policies through 'economic sanctions.' The 'Stephen Biko Memorial Fund is hardly a reasonable option for us: the University can easily transfer funds it would have used for these students' scholarships to other areas, and educating a few carefully selected blacks would probably provide their brothers little relief from the economic and moral degradations of apartheid. This program might be useful if few or no South African blacks now attend Harvard and if there would...
Ironically, McNamara's point was lost on 1,000 protesters, mainly students, who burned him in effigy because they could not forgive his role in shaping Viet Nam War strategy. Their enthusiasm was misplaced; the rioters themselves could hardly have denounced "the mad momentum" of the arms race with more passionate eloquence than McNamara. Said...
...Lieutenant Governor, after announcing his support for the split primary, went beyond his usual genial role as presiding officer of the senate and began lobbying actively for the bill. When prospects for passage continued to look bleak, Hobby tried to slip the measure past the Bees by bringing up an innocuous election funding bill that, he figured, could be amended to provide for the dual primary. When Hobby called up the funding bill, the Killer Bees struck...
Even before Egypt raised its flag over El Arish, Ambassador-at-Large Robert S. Strauss, 60, was raising his own in Washington. President Carter's special envoy to the Middle East talks on Palestinian autonomy began serving notice that he intends to play a dominant role. "I've got a mandate from the President," he told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein. "I consider myself a full partner with him and the Secretary of State." In mid-May, Strauss announced that he would make his first visit to Cairo and Jerusalem in his new role at the end of June...
Qaboos is acutely aware that he needs Britain now more than ever, since Iran will no longer be acting as policeman of the Persian Gulf. For the same reason, he is anxious for the U.S. to play a more active role. "The Sultan is in the cockpit of conflict," says one of his British officers. "How he flies will determine the future of several kings, including King Khalid of Saudi Arabia. What he's done in nine years shows that he's got the hang of it. I'd wager when the time comes...