Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police repression mounted over five months until the toll was more than 70 dead. Last week alone, in the five days preceding Ayub's radio surrender, at least 38 people died in disorders in West and East Pakistan. Most of the trouble was in the East, where mob rule shook Dacca, the largest city, and army troops with automatic weapons confronted demonstrators who shrilled: "Rise! Rise!" Scores were injured by bayonets and flying lathis, the steel-tipped bamboo sticks used by the police, and attempts at curfews proved useless. But when Ayub's message flashed across the country...
...challenge with which the President has confronted the opposition is formidable indeed. By removing himself from the political scene, he has deprived his opponents of the one aim that all agreed on: opposition to his rule. To avoid the instability of the pre-Ayub period-the President once called that era "an agonizingly prolonged political farce"-the opposition will have to work together. But existing divisions among the opposition parties make that at best a tenuous hope...
...SFAC also unanimously voted to seat a student on Paine Hall pro--Richard E. Hyland '69-3, elected from Dunster House--and decided to request the Faculty to exempt the SFAC from the College rule that a student on probation may not hold "positions of honor and responsibility...
...Personnel Office offers two rationales for its decision. The director of personnel, John W. Teele, cited first a 25-year-old rule-the University could not request "deferments" for its employees because an individual's status is "between him and his board...
PORTNOY'S priest, if not his god, is Dr. Spielvogel. Portnoy himself blunders about, half conscious of the Oedipal and castration complexes that rule his life. In fact, self-consciousness becomes his hang-up. At one point he pauses over a particular problem to ask, "now, why is that? is there an essay somewhere I can read on that? is it of import? or shall I go on?" Portnoy, with his daydreams and his failures, is actually much closer to that other Joycean hero, Leopold Bloom. The more Portnoy dredges up his past, the more it cripples him. He never...