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...Panamanian support for the treaty I shall ask every person to vote, to express himself on the new treaty. We already have begun the massive registration of every Panamanian. It is true that I would prefer a generation of Castristas [Castro-types] to a generation of castrados [castrated ones]. They may vote no, but I want them to vote. I have faith that my people will vote for the right thing...
...most salient difference between the traditional von Stade role and that which Moses is likely to assume is in the relationship between the Freshman Dean's Office and the rest of University Hall. As John B. Fox Jr. '59, dean of the College, describes the relationship, "Impressionistically, it is true the dean was a somewhat autonomous character who was more a colleague than an employee of the dean of the College." But when Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, asked Fox to create a more structured environment within the College administration, Fox moved to place the freshman dean directly under...
...Philippines still has a far less repressive political atmosphere than many other regimes in Asia. "It's simply unfair to put the Philippines into the same category as Iran or South Korea as a human rights violator, not to mention most of the Communist countries," says one diplomat. True enough. But Marcos himself has promised that "any violation of human rights is one too many that may not be tolerated by the new society." That is a high standard for any government...
Much the same is true in Eastern Europe, reports TIME Correspondent David Aikman. The human rights campaign is cheered not only by the active opponents of the harsh Communist regimes but also by most of the people, who fondly associate the policy with the kind of American evangelical fervor that prompted Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. As Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik told Aikman: "The morality of the West is human rights...
...military and the bigoted, sanctimonious zeal of the church. And ever and always, the eternal humbuggery of the English, used and overused by Shaw for comic relief and casual abuse. All of this might qualify him as a complete cynic or skeptic, except that he was a true child of the 19th century, with an ineradicable faith in the evolutionary process. Taking his text from Nietzsche - "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman" - Shaw found his equivalent for God in what he called the Life Force. He had a messianic faith that natural selection...