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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to play a role," he told colleagues privately, implying that Israel should not allow the guerrillas to gain an upper hand in Lebanon. "We are the only power in the Mediterranean that can. Let's not play games. We must decide whom to help and then use our forces to change the political picture...
...trade with West Germany. Russia also has steadily increased its own trade with Bonn, and so has East Germany, which Poland had been counting on as a supplier of sorely needed technology. Moreover, Moscow has been holding talks with West Germany since 1966 about a mutual agreement renouncing the use of force-a deal that Poland fears might not provide adequate security for its own borders. Thus, when Russia finally gave permission last March for its Warsaw Pact allies to begin negotiating their own bilateral agreements with Bonn, Poland decided to try and make up for lost time...
According to reports from Moscow, the Ryazan branch of the Soviet Writers Union recently yielded to party pressure to expel Solzhenitsyn from the organization. The move was taken to punish the 50-year-old author for "conduct unbecoming a Soviet writer," for "actively using the bourgeois anti-Soviet press for anti-Soviet propaganda," and for failing to combat the use of his name abroad. Since the ouster places a stigma on Solzhenitsyn, it means, in effect, that no Soviet editor would dare accept his works for publication...
...Syndicate is threatening to use its control over the party machinery to force through a censure motion against Indira. Some Syndicate members favor the more drastic step of trying to expel her from the party. The looming schism poses many questions about what might happen next in Indian politics. One possibility: Indira could form a coalition between her wing of the party and the Communists and thus remain Prime...
...result, the schools often use retired or uncertified teachers, who are almost always paid less than the going public school rate. The range of the curriculum tends to be narrow. Such semiessentials as labs, libraries and gymnasiums are frequently lacking. Accreditation is hard to come by, and graduates consequently face severely restricted choices in planning for higher education. On the whole, concluded a recent report by the Southern Regional Council, the segregation academies ironically offer the white pupil "an education that is not 'separate but equal,' but separate and inferior...