Word: government
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa-which, after all, is the continent's most powerful nation-and concentrate instead on convincing the whites that apartheid is unnecessary. The only way to convince them, Banda suggested, is by proving that black Africans can get along well with their white neighbors-and that they can govern themselves with responsibility and stability. So far, the record of the OAS nations is hardly convincing, he said: "They practice disunity, not unity, while posing as the liberators of Africa. While they play in the orchestra of Pan Africanism, their own Romes are burning...
...know that to govern is the most difficult art of all, since it deals with the evasive nature and changeable feelings of men, who yearn to live in peace and reach at least a minimum of happiness...
...even the appearance of this to occur. And if Johnson were fortunate enough to force the North Vietnamese to cut drastically their aid to the NLF, there is no reason to believe that the Viet Cong insurrection could be quelled to the point where a civilian regime could effectively govern the South...
Already the Powell case has put subtle pressure on both chambers of Congress to re-examine the rules that govern their members. In the Senate, the slow-moving investigation of Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd's tangled finances is scheduled to resume next week. In the House, proposals to establish an ethics committee are being pushed with new vigor. Said Massachusetts' Freshman Republican Margaret Heckler: "How can the House slap one member's wrists without holding out all members' hands for inspection...
...cities of Cambridge and Boston. Fears were expressed that the universities would become entangled in local politics and that town-gown conflicts would be exacerbated. Others predicted that scholars would bog down while trying to fight their way through the bewildering maze of political and bureaucratic jurisdictions that govern the metropolitan area. By now, however, most of the doubts have been resolved, and the Center plunges into issues as controversial as the effort to eliminate racial imbalance...