Word: yokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many alumni were aware of the forthcoming Capital Fund Drive, although there has not yet been any official announcement. Wayne P. Libhart '51 said he is in favor of the Capital Drive, because Harvard needs to "get out from under the yoke of Washington...
When John Paul proclaimed that he was taking the yoke that Christ had placed on "our fragile shoulders," everyone thought he was speaking figuratively and out of characteristic humility. So cheerful was he, so steady of hand, that hardly anyone thought about his health. Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden, who himself survived a heart attack, recalls that John Paul's health was never mentioned in the conclave. One historian wondered if the Cardinals might not be submerged in guilt over the affliction of the man they put in office. Did the pressures of the job exact a sudden toll...
While accepting the rationale for Soviet, Cuban and East German intervention in Ethiopia and Angola, Obasanjo argued that East-bloc aid to black Africa must have limits. "The Soviets should not overstay their welcome," he warned. "Africa is not about to throw off one colonial yoke for another. The Soviets should therefore see it to be in their interest not to seek to perpetually maintain their presence even after the purpose for which they were invited has been achieved. This way they run the risk of being dubbed a new imperial power, as indeed they already are being called even...
...pattern has become classic: a nation emerges from the colonial yoke, lustily declares its independence-and then succumbs to the totalitarian mode. French Philosopher Jean-Francis Revel, author of Without Marx or Jesus, tries to analyze this alarming trend in a book filled with mordant wit and intensity. As a kind of historical prosecuting attorney, Revel puts Joseph Stalin in the dock, then offers witnesses to the crime of totalitarianism. It was the murderous Russian dictator who showed the 20th century how to construct a hermetically sealed tyranny, says Revel. It is the Stalinist model that is being sedulously imitated...
Blacks, of course, suffered the most in Daley's Chicago. It never worked for them. Although clever management by the mayor's ward bosses kept the huge black community in Daley's corner, recent years have seen them chafing under the yoke. They rose to throw Daley's states attorney out of office after he allegedly engineered the murder of two Black Panthers, and in the 1975 Democratic mayoral primary Daley failed to get a majority of black votes for the first time. Last spring black voters stood off an organization front man's challenge to Rep. Ralph Metcalfe...