Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after Harvard's student government ended a six-month controversy over the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), the faculty at the University of Wisconsin passed a resolution banning ROTC from campus unless it ends its discriminatory policies against gays and lesbians...
...have had differences with the dean that persist in large part due to his inability to deal with student concerns." he said. "When we meet with him, we like him. He's a person we can talk to...but a lot of students think that doesn't mean much unless down the road it translates into real results...
...most contentious religious problem within the Soviet Union concerns the 4 million or so Catholics in the western Ukraine, whose plight is a key agenda item in this week's talks between Gorbachev and the Pope. Friendlier contacts, and a papal visit to the U.S.S.R., cannot occur unless this, the world's largest underground religious community, is restored. Under Stalin, all Ukrainian Catholic bishops were imprisoned and a fraudulent 1946 synod dissolved their jurisdictions, handing over 4,100 churches to Russian Orthodoxy. The majority of the Catholic priests rejected the takeover and either were arrested or went into hiding...
...Klerk still controls all means of negotiation. No serious political concessions have been made, and the president will offer few unless there is some way to protect his white constituency...
That de Klerk is attacking right-wing intolerance is heartening. But de Klerk, like Gorbachev in Europe, has also unleashed strong political forces that threaten to carry him away. Unlike the Soviet premier, however, de Klerk is offering only superficial changes, not legitimate reforms. Unless he is willing to offer Blacks an equal political role, he may discover that his policies of "balance" have expiration dates...