Word: sylvanus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replacement in 1817 was Major Sylvanus Thayer, the man most responsible for shaping West Point's future. A graduate of the class of 1807, Thayer envisioned a school that would not only produce leaders in wartime but would also train engineers and scientists to develop the growing country. Despite his ability, Thayer was constantly thwarted by Congressmen who saw the fledgling academy as a waste of money and a potential instrument of federal power, and so tried to have it abolished. Political favoritism in Washington forced reinstatement of dismissed cadets. Lack of funds became so crucial that cadets were...
...Room. The operation is run with virtuosity by National Chairman Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, 56, a North Carolina-born onetime Democrat who was Nixon's classmate at Duke University Law School and who switched to the G.O.P. this year. Rhyne, a former president of the American Bar Association and an expert in international law, is fascinated by computers. Before joining Nixon, he was busy feeding laws from around the world into electronic memory banks; he also publishes a monthly magazine called Law and Computer Technology. Rhyne expects to spend $2,000,000 coordinating more than 1,500 functioning Nixon-Agnew...
...four years to the day since irate Togolese soldiers murdered President Sylvanus Olympic because he had refused to spend more money on the army. What more appropriate way to celebrate the anniversary than with another coup? So Army Chief of Staff Etienne Guassinghe Eyadéma, 34, did just that. In a swift and bloodless takeover, he ousted President Nicholas Grunitzky, suspended the constitution and the National Assembly, and banned all political parties. Coup No. 2 for tiny Togo (pop. 1,617,000) was the seventh military takeover in a year for Black Africa...
...sound ed splendid enough, and his fellow Africans were impressed at first. Later, when they found his agents bent on overthrowing their regimes, other African leaders lost their enthusiasm for the freedom pioneer. He was strongly suspected of instigating the 1963 assassination of Togo's President Sylvanus Olympic; last year 14 French-speaking states joined together in a formal denunciation of his eternal plotting...
...majority of black Africa's new nations have adopted one-party systems-by no means all as representative as Kenya's. The late President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympic, insisted that "the test of a democratic regime in Africa might not be the actual presence of a second party, so much as whether the regime tolerated individualists." This is not necessarily doublethink. The one-party system is an effort to come to terms with an African tradition of tribal consensus in which the elders made universally accepted decisions. In such a context the concept of a "loyal opposition...