Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany. Out went the U.S. tradition of universities policing adolescents in loco parentis. At Columbia, student rebels captured the campus, destroyed a tottering adult empire (last week President Grayson Kirk resigned), and inspired more demonstrations in France, where once-passive students turned anarchist and incited a nationwide general strike that nearly toppled
What sort of bargain Svoboda and Dubcek might be able to strike in Moscow remained problematical. Pravda's massive editorial sounding the warning on the invasion made it clear that the Kremlin wants to be assured of several things before it withdraws its army. The Russians insist that the old-line cad res be kept in their jobs in the party and government. They want press freedoms curtailed. They want guarantees that Czechoslovakia's economy will remain oriented toward the Soviet bloc...
...week were, they were no more mysterious than the motives and timing of the men who triggered them in Moscow. One of the real dramas of the invasion of Czechoslovakia took place in the Kremlin, whose leaders have been locked in debate for weeks about whether to strike down Alexander Dubcek's liberal reforms. Why did Russia's leaders finally decide to use fists instead of flexibility...
...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...
Since its debut during the newspaper strike of 1963, The New York Review of Books has depended chiefly on two artists-David Levine...