Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most recent border clash, on March 15, fell far short of being a decisive incident. Details being released gradually in Moscow, however, assert that the Chinese force involved was the equivalent of a regiment-about 3,000 men. It is in the Soviet interest to portray China's belligerence in lurid terms. Moscow's reports were strongly phrased and probably exaggerated. The Chinese employed their Korea-proven "human wave" attacks-and Moscow claims that Russian casualities were heavy, although exact totals have not been released so far. A Soviet counterattack, using armored cars, reportedly cleared the island. Soviet...
...trips I worked with the comforting knowledge that everything I reported was unique, vanishing, and would be useful for anthropology. Today those people and I live in the same world, and my knowledge of their past has changed the world climate so that it is ready for them to assert their rights as human beings. It's sentimental to object to the fact that people are coming into a world community. We're not going to go back...
Under the current system, year-end examinations assert the definitive judgment of our capacities while providing us no evaluative feedback during the year. Grades create a status hierarchy with few winners, but many losers. The current procedures are unjustifiable at a time when the school is attracting so many highly-motivated, well-qualified students. As the ones who stand to lose by this system, we want to see it changed before we experience the unhappy effects of it; but we also recognize that the issues we raise deeply affect an educational process that is the central concern of a faculty...
...select a President. Next month German legislators will meet again in the former German capital to choose a successor to retiring West German President Heinrich Liibke. Until now, East Germany has maintained that West Berlin was "a separate political entity." But now the East Germans, eager as always to assert their identity as a sovereign and equal German state, claim that West Berlin is on their soil and belongs to them. They thus regard West German political activity in West Berlin as a direct provocation against their own independence...
Cohn-Bendits, the Communists played into the hands of the Gaullists, allowing them to characterize the conflict as Stalinism v. the established system. The C.G.T. also sold out, they assert, by steering the political energies unleashed in the factories toward the bourgeois goals of higher wages and better working conditions instead of toward political power...