Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the so-called third party. Under the truce signed in January, this council should have been in operation by the end of April. One of its principal tasks is to prepare the way for a national election. Thieu, however, will oppose any attempt by the council to function as a coalition government superior to him. For its part, the U.S. will cease aerial reconnaissance flights over North Viet Nam and will resume the mine-clearing operations in the North's harbors and rivers. It will also resume talks with Hanoi about postwar economic...
...Chicago's Loop. It has also been criticized on aesthetic grounds, and is certainly a far cry from the conventional, slick, sheer-walled slab. But S.O.M. was really following the old dictum of Louis Sullivan, one of Chicago's pioneers in skyscraper architecture, that form must follow function. By such a standard, the tower has an honesty of design that most urban buildings lack. Indeed, the tallest building in the world is perhaps a forerunner of skyscrapers with a new kind of spare, utilitarian beauty...
...clear message which the entire Watergate episode telegraphs to the Third World, particularly Africa, is the heartening reassurance that the processes of democracy do function; that the system of checks and balances does work effectively. JOHN J. AKAR Visiting Professor of African Culture Morehouse College Atlanta...
...matters. I looked to John Ehrlichman for the supervision of this group. Egil Krogh, Mr. Ehrlichman's assistant, was put in charge. David Young was added to this unit, as were E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. The unit operated under extremely tight security rules. Its existence and function were known only to a very few persons at the White House. These included Messrs. Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean...
Throughout those early Nixon years, Administration officials were at loggerheads with Hoover over the function of the FBI. They wanted Hoover to concentrate much more heavily on radical political organizations and black nationalists, and less on common criminals and old left subversives. What the Administration sought would have required intense FBI coverage of campuses across the U.S. Early in 1970, the White House asked the FBI whether rioting and violence were being directed by foreign countries. The FBI simply could not answer the question...