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...Germany may now be found. Few have the illusion that the frozen ice of Central Europe can be broken any time soon. Explains Altmann: "Reunification has no great diplomatic chance. It will become possible only if we succeed in creating a new fact: the psychological collapse of the status quo in Europe...
...people are speaking," Louise Day Hicks told reporters on the night of her overwhelming re-election to the Boston School Committee last November. Her implication was clear: here was a mandate for the status quo, for keeping the 23,000 Negroes in Boston's imbalanced schools where they were...
...surprisingly, ACCION's self-help ideal sometimes falls short in practice. The barrio is a transitory settlement of strangers, and the organizational sense often fades in the rapid population turnover. Moreover, not everyone is interested in progress; sometimes various politicians depend for their power on maintaining the status quo...
...racial matters has also delayed the building of a new English High School for over three years; the only available site has been in Roxbury. The Committee has yet to spend a cent of the $29 million bond issue, floated in 1963, for fear of disturbing the racial status quo...
...calls for French troops under integrated NATO command and the presence on French soil of NATO men and matériel. France would have been happy to negotiate reforms, but hélas, wrote De Gaulle, the other NATO countries were "all partisans of the maintenance of the status quo." Therefore France would soon unilaterally withdraw its own remaining forces from NATO commands. And NATO, in turn, would be required "to transfer out of French territory...