Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...analyzed violence on campuses next. One contributing cause, he noted, is the fact that colleges are composed of "a large group of people removed from family roots and restraints," in the "presence of left wing professors who condition the students toward rioting...
...does not admit to being busier than he would like to be, but the people who work in his office seem to do most of his complaining for him. "DeVore spends one third of his time professing, and two thirds of his time administering money, as wing chairman," one student said, "and it's a waste of talent...
...government of "revolutionary nationalism," Ovando cast himself as a general of the left. He courted the same loose coalition of students, workers, and young, socially oriented military officers that Bolivia's flamboyant General René Barrientos had used as a power base during his regime. Ovando brought left-wing intellectuals into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign in the troubled, underproductive tin mines. But after a few months, conservative businessmen and military hard-liners helped edge Ovando back toward the center, alienating many of his former...
Despite Allende's clear if narrow claim to victory, the two losing parties seemed at one point to be on the verge of snatching the presidency away from him. Alessandri, the right-wing runner-up, said that if he were elected President by the Congress, he would resign immediately, paving the way for new elections. The popular President Frei, legally barred from succeeding himself, would then be permitted to run. Although he would probably have won an absolute majority against any and all opponents, Frei did not support the plan publicly, possibly because he believed that it was merely...
ARGENTINA. Increasingly, the country's right-wing junta feels surrounded by sources of political contagion-the terrorist movement in Uruguay, the leftist military junta in Bolivia, and now a Communist threat on the other side of Argentina's rugged Andean frontier. The Argentines have no plans to charge into Chile, but they are keeping in close touch with Peru's generals in an effort to make ready for anything. One military man in Buenos Aires predicts that clashes will break out on the Argentine-Chilean border within 15 months. A former Argentine foreign minister says that...