Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professors would not be free to seek the sponsors they want nor would they be able to study the subjects they want. Ironically, by yielding to to anti-CIA sentiment, the University would be in effect caving into pressures from the outside world...
...Greetings from the almighty form of God," says the celestial tutelage. "Do you seek our counsel...
...similar exchange program has been operating at Yale for the last two years, prompting the CEC to seek new ties between other Soviet and American universities...
Meanwhile, authorities have had to cope with Yugoslavia's long-simmering ethnic tensions. The worst problem is the impoverished southern province of Kosovo, where once dominant Serbs are now outnumbered almost 9 to 1 by ethnic Albanians, many of whom seek independence from Belgrade. Animosity has run high since Yugoslav troops crushed ethnic Albanian riots in 1981. The Serbs complain of rising Albanian persecution in the form of rapes, murders and cattle blindings. Hostility mounted last month when Serbian newspapers quoted former Yugoslav Vice President Fadilj Hodza, a top-ranking ethnic Albanian Communist, as sardonically telling army-reserve officers that...
...Mikulic struggles with such problems, a growing number of Yugoslavs believe he will be forced out by next May, when the Prime Minister must seek parliamentary approval to serve another two years. Reports circulating in Belgrade say Mikulic is seeking a successor to enable him to step down. Many citizens openly yearn for a leader with the vision to revamp the sclerotic Communist hierarchy and loosen controls over politics and the economy. That would follow the astonishing growth of press freedom and other rights that have blossomed since Tito's death. But no leader short of a new Tito...