Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the best answer, however, lies in some form of "big brother" system. Many problems which confront the foreign student are more easily discussed with a contemporary than with a member of the faculty. Moreover, an interested student could show the foreigner how to use the libraries, how to get around in Cambridge, and a host of other things for which a faculty member is less suitable...
...suspended a cartographer, Abraham Chasanow, on the basis of derogatory rumors that were proved baseless. Chasanow's case illustrated the injustice to government employees caused by the operations of the Eisenhower program. Under severe economic and financial hardship during his 13-month suspension, Chasanow was denied an opportunity to confront the witnesses who had testified against...
...meaning or elation; last week the ambassadorial talks between the U.S. and Red China entered their second year. After 55 meetings the procedure has become cut and dried. Every ten days or so, able and unruffled U. Alexis Johnson, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, journeys from Prague to Geneva to confront, punctually at 10 a.m., Wang Ping-nan, Red China's Ambassador to Warsaw. Johnson usually begins by asking about Americans still held in China; Wang accuses the U.S. of holding Chinese in the U.S. against their will, and sputters that all Americans in China will be re leased...
While British and French troops moved to the alert in the tense Suez Canal crisis, the U.S. last week took a firm stand for moderation. In one of the most unusual gambles in diplomatic history, the President and the Secretary of State proposed to confront Egypt's President Nasser with the pressures of moral law, then stood back to await the consequences...
...press was fitted for an authoritarian straitjacket last week by Premier Adnan Menderes. The government quickly whipped a new press bill through its Democratic Party caucus, and a Grand National Assembly committee approved it. This week, if the Democrat-dominated Assembly passes it as expected, the new law will confront Turkish editors and publishers with a hard choice: drop all criticism of the Menderes regime or face fines up to 10,000 lire ($3,600 at the official rate) and jail sentences up to three years...