Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary newspaper also exists to educate those already waging the struggle, as a forum for the viewpoints of the factions or as a magnet for one point of view within the revolutionary segment of the population...
This last in turn leads to the major complaint about the content of instruction, its lack of "relevance." It takes a faith which many students cannot muster to agree with the view that...
...Motors, the acknowledged pacesetter in auto prices, announced the largest increases in more than a decade. The window-sticker price of the average G.M. car will go up 3.9%, from $3,070 on 1969 models to $3,189 on the 1970 line. The company called the rise "modest" in view of much larger increases in the cost of labor and many materials. G.M. said that $38 of the $119 rise was for improved equipment, such as glass-fiber-reinforced tires, larger engines and disk brakes...
...weakened, fragmented Europe, soon to be dominated by France. The Cardinal also devised, as Historian O'Connell relates in this clear and remarkably sympathetic study, a code of royal morality to stiffen Louis XIII's spine and soothe his own (in O'Connell's view) active conscience. To protect his subjects, Richelieu lectured Louis, a sovereign must first protect the state. When the state is threatened, the first consideration is not to ensure justice but to remove the threat. Sadly, the headsman could not eliminate the doubts of rivals and traitors; happily, he could turn them...
...their feud. Since then, the feud has grown to epic proportions. Last March, just after a bitter, bloody Soviet-Chinese clash on the Ussuri River, Kosygin sought to telephone Peking's leaders. As Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao later told the story, the Chinese replied coldly: "In view of the present relations between China and the Soviet Union, it is unsuitable to communicate by telephone. If the Soviet government has anything to say, it is asked to put it forward officially through diplomatic channels." Despite the snub, Moscow persisted-and again was turned down. Finally, this summer, the Soviets...