Word: aftermath
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...aftermath of the Arab defeat, the fedayeen are today the only ones car rying the fight to Israel. The guerrillas provide an outlet for the fierce Arab resentment of Israel and give an awakened sense of pride to a people accustomed to decades of defeat, disillusionment and humiliation. In the process, the Arabs have come to idolize Mohammed ("Yasser") Arafat, a leader of El Fatah fedayeen who has emerged as the most visible spokesman for the commandos. An intense, secretive and determined Palestinian, he is enthusiastically portrayed by the admiring Arab press as a latter-day Saladin, with the Israelis...
YESTERDAY'S SIT-IN at Paine Hall began as a protest against ROTC, and as such it will likely prove to have been a failure. The sit-in did not succeed in dramatizing the political issues involved in ROTC's presence here. And its aftermath, like the aftermath of last year's demonstration against Dow, will inevitably shift attention away from political issues altogether, and towards the more mundane administrative questions of punishments and proprieties...
...aftermath of the convention, TV newsmen were berated by the police and the public as much as the police had been by the media or the hippies and yippies had been by everyone all along...
...Martin Luther King Center was instituted by NYU in the aftermath of Rev. King's assassination last April. The move was an imaginative and innovative one, and seemed to indicate a willingness to take certain risks on the part of the NYU administration. But the Hatchett ouster has shown that when faced by an atmosphere of racial tension and strong pressure from outside the university, NYU lacked the conviction to follow through with its project. President Hester could hardly have expected any other student reaction to his retreat than the one which developed...
...aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia two very different theories are emerging on what that event will mean in east-west relations. One argument, supported by both Senator Eugene McCarthy and President Johnson, contends that Czechoslovakia was at worst a passing interruption in the steady progress being made towards east-west detente. The second theory is that Russian use of force in supressing the reforms in Czechoslovakia indicates we are no longer playing the old ball game, that we are now dealing with Soviet leaders who will be as unpredictable and possibly as hostile as Stalin...