Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tweedledee," won 10%. How his followers vote will be decisive in the runoff, and both candidates will be courting them in the next few weeks. They must do so while also appealing to an apparent conservative mood among other voters. San Franciscans defeated proposals to install strict rent controls, disband the city's vice squad and raise business taxes...
...press censorship and reopened the universities closed last June. In presenting his new Cabinet to Parliament, he detailed elements of a program that included support for Iran's Arab neighbors, "especially the Palestinians," and a ban on future oil shipments to Israel and South Africa. He promised to disband SAVAK, the secret police, and announced that he had released 266 political prisoners and would compensate families of the more than 2,000 Iranians who had been killed in the months of rioting...
...remains at a dull roar. Six candidates running for the position of chairman of the assembly stand before the group. Four are former members of the Constitutional Convention, one is a smooth-talking sophomore from Quincy House, and the other is dressed as a magician and promises to help disband the assembly...
...women prisoners liberated the camp for 40 days. Though ultimately crushed by Soviet tanks, this and other uprisings aroused hopes among prisoners that resistance to the regime would spread out side the camps. Instead, change was ordered from above. In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev set out to disband most of the slave labor camps and release millions of prisoners. Solzhenitsyn hardly mentions this fateful event, stressing instead the legal, institutional and spiritual heritage of Stalinism in the present...
Other the years the ACSR has evolved, becoming a four faculty member, four alumni and four student body, with the one undergraduate member elected by the body of student representatives from the Houses and the freshman class. The body of student representatives has at times refused to disband upon choosing its nominee to the ACSR, as it did in 1972, when it demanded that the undergraduate representative's votes on issues be bound by its decisions. This year the group again did the same thing, institutionalizing itself by getting the approval of CHUL to become the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard...