Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter how remote Himalayan tigers or even Calcutta Communists, Americans have an important stake in this outsize election. During the past 15 years, the U.S. has funneled $2.4 billion in aid into India. Though its interpretation of neutralism is often irritating to the West, India is the world's most populous (438 million) democracy, and could be a major force for freedom in Asia. Or it could merely be a confused and drifting giant, at the mercy of its fiercely aggressive Communist neighbor...
With his personal prestige at stake, Nehru has campaigned vigorously for Menon. When local Congress leaders in North Bombay tried to dump Menon as a candidate, Nehru personally had the revolt squashed. Shortly thereafter, 26 Bombay Youth Congress workers resigned from the party, protesting that because of Menon's "pro-Communism, the future of the country is not safe." Nehru was infuriated, shouted in a speech before 200,000 people in North Bombay that the youth workers could "go to hell...
More important, everyone at Harvard has a stake in its administrative set-up--because the decisions that will affect the University the most in this decade are essentially administrative...
...Billions of dollars-and francs and marks and pounds-were also at stake in all the news of prospective tariff-cutting agreements between the U.S. and Europe's rapidly solidifying Common Market (see THE WORLD). Also from Washington came the substantive outline of a brand-new foreign trade program that, even more than this year's budget, could have a profound influence on U.S. economic life...
Thus, the case for freedom of the college press, which is strong and persuasive, too often is put in its weakest terms. It has nothing to do with the protections the Constitution affords the press. What is at stake is protecting these very constitutional freedoms, which are based on a society whose members are free to examine and criticize all institutions. These freedoms will survive only so long as we make it a stated policy of our educational system to stimulate the critical faculty, not suppress it because it sometimes may cause embarrassment...