Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris from choking to death, De Gaulle last week called for a national referendum this spring on his plans to increase regional power. In preparation for the vote, Gaullist planners propose to split France into 21 "economic regions" centered around eight major provincial centers: Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Strasbourg, Lille and Nancy-Metz...
...permitting the torture of prisoners, the Human Rights Commission of the Council of Europe, an 18-nation organization created to foster social and economic progress, called a special closed session to hear testimony. The Greek government complied by sending several heavily guarded ex-prisoners to the hearings in Strasbourg -but only after ordering them to deny all allegations of torture...
...balancing research with teaching. Faculty men have a predilection, as scholars, for research. Only a man who sympathized with this orientation could lead them. Ford's own books demonstrate a patience for technical and archival research; he has absorbed a mass of seventeenth and eighteenth century documents from Strasbourg. Paris, and Vienna in several dialects. Yet Ford, unlike other Faculty members, will not admit that scholarship is the only real criterion on which permanent appointments are based. He points out that ad hoc committees have rejected several departmental recommendations in the last couple of years specifically because the candidate...
...professors, medieval teaching methods, and harsh examinations designed to weed out students wholesale. On top of that, students bemoan antiquated curriculums. Most resented of all is France's grotesquely centralized educational bureaucracy. Last week, most major French universities or departments followed the lead of the University of Strasbourg and simply decided to secede from the system, declaring themselves autonomous...
...United Nations, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban sternly rejected any multinational effort to mediate a settlement as merely providing the Arabs with a shelter against "the necessity of peace." Then, flying from New York to Strasbourg to address the Council of Europe, Eban turned to a more hopeful future by proposing an economic union of Israel, Lebanon and Jordan-a notion that even he had to admit wryly was "perhaps Utopian." Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad's reply in the U.N. was an attack on the U.S. for adopting "a position of alignment with Israel and hostility toward...