Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years on the island of Taiwan, he is a living anachronism. Chiang is still widely recognized-at least in formal diplomatic terms- as the representative of all China. Yet even that is beginning to change, as some Western nations stir toward explicit acknowledgment of Mao Tse-tung's rule of the mainland. Italy put out feelers toward possible Peking diplomatic ties earlier this year. Canada announced last week that it planned to hold formal recognition talks with the Communists in Stockholm, starting next month...
...aims of General Yahya Khan, the army commander who has taken over as President. In his first press conference, Yahya last week declared that he gives top priority to keeping the peace. He also said that it would take some time before the country could be returned to constitutional rule. But Bhashani has served notice that he may start new trouble soon unless the President begins to confer with Pakistani politicians, including himself, about ways to settle the country's problems. Bhashani plays on the secessionist sentiments in East Pakistan. He rails against domination by the much better...
...those who hold a moral position which happens to be in the minority. This principle is commonly accepted in democratic societies: school segregation, state religion and genocide are examples of policies which could easily win elections in various localities, but which must not be submitted to such a majority rule. ROTC falls into a similar category. The only just solution to the ROTC controversy is actively to cease co-operating with the ROTC program...
...rule Harvard would like nothing better than to have students give up their strike and sit down to talk things over. It is true that there is a great deal of talking to be done, but if we give up the strike, then we could talk forever without changing Harvard...
SEVERAL HUNDRED lawless students at Harvard have accomplished what the virulently illiberal forces of the late Senator McCarthy failed to achieve. They have disrupted and suspended the historic rule of reason and academic freedom without which Harvard could never have become the symbol of the nation's quest for intellectual integrity and excellence...