Word: tion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CORRUPTION. "It hinders every im provement in society and the progress of the nation," said Thieu. "Its eradica tion is a very difficult task that re quires much courage, many efforts and patience, but I am determined to push vigorously the anticorruption program." Punishments, he said, would range from disciplinary measures all the way to imprisonment or even death...
Steve Thomas '64, one of the organizers of the protest, said that the group originally intended the petition for circula- tion only among teaching fellows and graduate students in the Government Department. The Harvard Draft Project suggested that the group broaden the woraing of the petition so that it would include others in the Department. The HDP is helping to circulate the petition...
...example, Lipset claims that the leftish, militant Students for a Democratic Society have only 7,000 members among the na tion's 6.5 million university students. By contrast, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans have a combined enrollment of nearly 250,000. Lipset also believes that on both the left and right, far more students were activists in the 1930s than are so today...
...university) has a special capacity to transcend its social constraints because it embodies a tradi- tion of intellectual diversity and articulate criticism; and because of all human functions, thought is the most difficult to curtail. But while the university is uniquely promising, it is also uniquely promising, it is also uniquely threatened by the pressures of ideology to which we have already referred. The university is in constant tension between its ideal critical capacity, and the powers of secular service that delimit its hope...
Skelm and Runcorn faced political difficulties arising out of the dual authority in the town. The national Government had formed a corpora- tion over each new town to draw up its master plan, provide utilities, and build factories and housing. The local government--the Urban District Council--was still largely in charge of providing playgrounds, community centers, schools, police protection, and fire service. The corporation was allowed to spend only fourteen dollars per person on these services...