Word: senting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet press handled Nixon's ABM announcement routinely, there was anxiety and outrage in Canada. Since the first Safeguard bases would be a few miles south of the Canadian border, and since Chinese or Soviet ICBMs would come in over the North Pole, the nuclear-armed ABMs sent to intercept them would probably be detonated over Canada. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was kept posted of Lyndon Johnson's Sentinel plans, but he was not informed in advance of President Nixon's switch to Safeguard. In an emergency debate in Ottawa, Socialist Leader Tommy Douglas protested: "Canada...
...questionnaire was sent to a random sample of graduate students at Harvard and other universities by the American Council--on Education--the largest national association of colleges and universities--and the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education...
...cover letter sent with the questionnaire says "your answers will be held in strictest confidence." But a master tape matching names and addresses with identification numbers on the computer-tabulated questionnaires will be retained for an undetermined period by the Carnegie Commission...
Edwards said the questionnaire was sent to 51,000 graduate students selected at random from the available lists. A complete survey would have been too costly, he added...
...separate questionnaire has been sent to 100,000 of 117,000 available faculty members, Edwards said. Countryman said the objectionable questions were not included in the faculty poll...