Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceasefire, followed by a mutual withdrawal of military forces. Any political settlement that would come after this truce, however, would surely require N.L.F. participation in the government of South Viet Nam; that compromise decision would have to be forced upon the Saigon regime ?a difficult and perhaps impossible task. In the absence of any signals from Hanoi, the only other plausible course is gradual, orderly withdrawal, accompanied by "Vietnamizing" of the war. The pace of the troop withdrawals so far set by the President should be speeded up. But they would probably have to be spread over two years...
Monro stated that the biggest task facing the black colleges is to educate disadvintaged black students who seem, "after twelve years of school, to be on the average at the 9th-or 10th-grade level. This is not a job the fast-moving, rich white colleges and universities can do, at least by themselves," Monro said...
...American, while the other half have come from Britain, Brazil, Burma, Germany, Holland, Norway; indeed from any country where well-trained men can be found to do this sort of work. Its forty-five advisers, stationed in six remote countries of the world, stubbornly work away at the task of raising the living standards, the hopes, and the self-respect of some of the most miserable people in existence. If their work requires them to take on the U.S. government, or the World Bank, or an indifferent local bureaucracy, that is all in the day's chores. Sometimes they work...
...these positions were guided not by ideology but by a pragmatic judgment of what was good for the country's economic development as well as that country's people. I pray that dogma, anybody's dogma, will never take over the task of making such decisions...
...unless Harvard upsets undefeated Dartmouth next week, its chances of defending the Ivy League championship are nearly hopeless. The Crimson needs to adjust both its offense and defense drastically, and mid-October is no time to begin such a task...