Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not there was any connection with Moro, the arrest of the four was a hopeful sign. For one thing, it showed increased police efficiency in tracking down terrorists. At almost the same time, in another demonstration of cooperation, French security guards at Paris' Orly airport picked up Stefan Wisniewski, 25, another of the most wanted 20. Wisniewski, about to board a flight to Yugoslavia, was stopped when a French inspector recognized the alias on his false passport because of information supplied by Bonn...
...case Congress did not get that message, Premier Ecevit was even more blunt last week. Saying that he felt "no threat" from the Soviet Union, Ecevit announced that he would visit Moscow later this month to sign a friendship agreement. "It's an increasingly smaller world," he told TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. "It's natural there should be closer cooperation between countries of different alliances...
...likely to pass in the House. Despite the dark cloud under which the testing establishment has fallen recently, the immense market for standardized tests--such as the minimal competency tests that many states are now adopting--is growing, Castello says, adding, "As a nation we are showing no sign of decreasing our reliance on these tests...
...administration are not "typical." The typical students, he says, are the ones who did not take time to read the proposal carefully, the ones who approached him in dining halls with uninformed questions about the Core. Even the most palpable example of student opposition--the anti-Core petition signed by over 2500 undergraduates--"doesn't mean very much," because "it is in the Harvard tradition to sign petitions...
...future plans. He speaks almost wistfully of the freedom and independence of academic life--"the life of a professor is wonderful, and I really appreciate it"--and yet he makes no indication that he is ready to return to that life just yet. Nor does he let slip any sign that he is willing to leave Harvard for greener--or at least less crimson--pastures. He sums up his future in the simple enigmatic phrase: "I don't intend to remain as Dean of the Faculty forever...