Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your term bill unfeasible, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, usually knows the best program or method of financing your education. Gibson is a friendly face in the Holyoke Center wasteland, and more helpful than the Financial Aid Office underlings, who will throw every rule in the book...
...colony. By week's end, however, her peers among the 41 Commonwealth leaders at the eight-day conference readily acknowledged that Mrs. Thatcher had made an important contribution toward solving an explosive issue that threatened to wreck the conference-namely, the problem of how to bring genuine majority rule to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. After arriving in Lusaka "with two horns and a tail," as she put it, Britain's new Prime Minister had suddenly become a symbol of hope...
...Rhodesia, which gives whites a disproportionate share of seats in the legislature and effective control of the armed forces, police, civil service and judiciary for five years. To the surprise of many delegates present, Mrs. Thatcher matched the African proposals, declaring that Britain was determined to achieve genuine majority rule in Salisbury and would take the primary responsibility for bringing it about. In fact, she and her Cabinet colleagues had worked out the Tory government's African position before the conference began. But by publicly announcing it at the Lusaka summit, in response to African demands, she made...
...refugees in Geneva. There, Hanoi officials pledged to slow the exodus from Viet Nam, which in four years has consisted of 550,000 ethnic Chinese, who are being forced out because they are a hated minority, and 350,000 Vietnamese who do not want to live under Communist rule. Ironically, however, the curb on the exodus will only increase the misery of the many people who wish to leave but now cannot. To cut the refugee flow, the Vietnamese have stepped up police patrols along their coasts, and some Western representatives at Geneva now fear that Hanoi is violating some...
...insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley and Edward O. Wilson. France's New Righters thus call for a "meritocratic" society in which the ablest and most intelligent would rule. As practical steps toward this goal, they suggest a variety of programs ranging from abortion and genetic control to a new kind of elitist education that would involve the early selection of children with high IQs for special training...