Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army, was killed while resisting a kidnaping attempt. President Nixon in September had ordered the CIA "to play a direct role in organizing a military coup in Chile to prevent [Salvador] Allende's accession to the presidency," and the kidnaping was viewed as an indispensable and unavoidable element in that coup. As it happened, the CIA five days before had withdrawn its support of the particular group that pulled off the kidnaping that resulted in the general's death, but it could as easily have happened earlier. There is no evidence, however, of an American plan to harm...
Harvard faces a difficult decision on whether to retain an element of free choice in housing assignments. While the goal of free choice is attractive, it is unattainable with Harvard's varied housing alternatives. The best way to avoid or diminish the annual agonizing of freshmen assigned to Houses they dislike is a move to Yale's assignment system. Under this plan, all first-year students would be associated randomly with a House before they arrive in Cambridge, and allowed to transfer before sophomore year...
...Ford and Nessen were identifying New York with sons that run deeply against the grain of the American value system. What Ford is really trying to do to New York is to separate it from the American spiritual community. Accusing it of perverting the most integral and sacred element of that community--the family--is the sharpest rhetorical way to effect that separation...
...only new element in this year's campaign was the formation of Cambridge Convention '75, a coalition of liberal groups in the city. The group threatened to undermine the Independents' control by registering thousands of newly enfranchised voters, but the plan failed when the convention didn't accompany the effort with enough follow-up. Students who had little commitment to Cambridge or the few scattered issues in the campaign just didn't show up at the polls...
...INTERESTING ELEMENT of this last election was not the issues--the Independents said that there were none; the liberals used scare tactics, claiming that the Independents would end rent control and fire city manager James L. Sullivan...