Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegations, the MPLA is by no means a tool of Soviet diplomacy. Unlike FNLA and UNITA--both tribally based organizations--the MPLA's real concerns are for socialist development in Angola. The MPLA has already built broadly based popular institutions in the areas under its control, bringing in its wake education, health care, and participatory democracy...
...issue, when President Ford announced that the United States had retaken the freighter Mayaguez after Cambodia had seized it. Karnow then wrote a two-paragraph editorial, that was mildly critical of U.S. policy and said that the military operation was staged "to rescue U.S. honor in wake of the Indochina debacle...
...nationwide. A "subliminal panic" shot through the middle classes after Kent State, and again when thermostats dropped and gas lines formed in the early morning darkness; today many students are unapologetically out for themselves alone. Especially telling are the rise of guru- and pseudo-liberation fads in the wake of the earlier protest's defeat, and of "decadence" at schools like Yale, where leaves of absence are at an all-time low; they signal most vividly a spiralling-off of individuals into private worlds within a corporate universe...
Alarmed by the growing threat of mob rule, which radicals euphemistically called poder popular (people power), Pinheiro de Azevedo has warned: "People power becomes tyranny when it is not united under a body of law." In the wake of the construction workers' lock-in of the Premier, the 247-member Constituent Assembly debated whether to move to the more tranquil environs of Oporto in the north. In the end, they decided to stay in Lisbon to show they were not afraid, but they did pass a motion allowing them to meet anywhere in the country if conditions warrant. Disgruntled...
...problems run deeper than its structure. It was established in the wake of the 1969 student strike because the Faculty felt it had no adequate way to discipline students who occupied buildings and demonstrated to protest University policies. The committee's charter is a vaguely worded "Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities" that allows the CRR to discipline any student who "obstructs the normal processes and activities" of the University. Although there are serious iniquities in the CRR's structure and procedure, it has the power to expel students from the University in addition to several lesser punishments...