Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...created different demands on the intelligence establishment. Along with traditional estimates of the missile and military capabilities of Communist countries, the White House is insisting on a new emphasis on assessments of their political and strategic intentions. The entire intelligence estimating process is being refined to include more stress on such developments as Soviet and Chinese grain outputs and computer advances...
...rightly labeled the `Athens of America.' Cambridge has two mammoth universities, a number of small colleges and a thoroughly heterogenous population. The universities openly engage in classified research for the United States Government. It is logical to speculate that such research might just include the study of socio-psychological stress factors within a controlled environment. If one cares to spend most of a fortnight researching Harvard and M.I.T. real estate acquisitions within the City of Cambridge from the end of World War II through the late 1960s one soon comes to the conclusion that there is indeed a pattern...
There is no question but that the students were utilized as pawns, and the the problems were artificially created. There is no question that the purpose of the uprisings of the late 1960s was imbedded in government classified contracts which sought to determine specific stress limits of a cross section of the American population. It might also be quite likely that careful observation has been made concerning artificial stagnation of the psychological-individuation process in college-age youngsters, and the extension of length of time which is possible for the artificial prolongation of such stagnation...
Gill also charged that the Harvard and MIT administrations during that time by "carefully" ignoring the growth of radical organizations and putting deliberate pressure on the Cambridge housing market, were actually conducting classified research into "the specific stress limits of a cross section of the American population...
...Added stress was given the experiment when Harvard covertly aided the growth of local radical groups, Gill said. She said Harvard "in part funded" activist organizations, adding that "known communists were admitted to Radcliffe and Harvard...