Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretext for stationing Soviet troops in Rumania. On the theory that nothing unites reluctant allies like a good common enemy, Soviet leaders may also hope to heal some of the deep splits among Eastern European nations by sounding alarms about neo-Nazism in West Germany. With the first planning session for its long-sought Communist summit scheduled to begin this week in Budapest, the Kremlin needs every bit of support it can muster from fellow Communist countries...
...working. When S.D.S. Leader Mark Rudd tried to register, most of the students present looked on with bored amusement. A brief struggle between the radicals and some elderly gymnasium guards was noted primarily for its comedy. The administration also played it cool when 400 students attending the opening session of the "International Assembly of Revolutionary Student Movements" (a confederation of S.D.S.ers, black militants and European radicals) stormed into a classroom in protest against the university's ban on the meeting. Instead of calling in the police, Columbia stood aside and let the gathering run to a quiet close...
...despairs of the outcome. He estimates that 50 Senators will vote against shutting off debate, leaving far fewer than the two-thirds needed for cloture. After two failures on a cloture vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield is likely to withdraw the nomination, and the court will open its new session next month with Warren back on the bench...
Pending thoroughgoing policy reviews in every department, Trudeau plans no startling innovations for the new parliamentary session. More important in the long run to Canadians is Trudeau's commitment to constitutional reform, by which he hopes to give Canadians a bill of rights and reapportion the powers between federal and provincial governments. Promising to "plug the people into the decision-making process," Trudeau has urged all Canadians to join in the coming constitutional debate, challenging them "to embark wholeheartedly on a journey whose destination is uncertain. Our country deserves more than a blind rush to some imagined Utopia...
...press may not be able to hold out much longer. At Russian insistence, three important magazines-Literárni Listy, Reportér and the intellectual weekly Student-have already been banned. The Czech National Assembly last week was called into session to pass a "temporary" press-control bill that re-establishes censorship. As if to prepare for the event, Russian troops moved out of Czech newspaper offices and permitted journalists to return to their desks-where their activities will be easier to observe and control...