Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however mild, was carefully timed. The Sino-Soviet negotiations over reducing border tensions were supposed to resume in Peking last week, but apparently have been delayed because the two sides are so far apart. Moscow has agreed to discuss minor border adjustments, but the Chinese insist on a broader approach: a mutual troop withdrawal from the disputed areas and a Soviet admission that the present frontiers are based on "unequal treaties" dating back to czarist times. The Chinese were also miffed because the Soviet negotiator, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, returned to the talks a week later than...
Paranoid Fear. Western observers believe that China's policymakers agreed to a resumption of the Warsaw talks for two reasons: 1) Premier Chou Enlai, whose pragmatic approach to foreign affairs appears to carry the most weight in Peking these days, is convinced that China must begin to emerge from the isolation of the Cultural Revolution, and 2) the Chinese are genuinely fearful that a breakdown of the border negotiations could lead to war with the Soviet Union, and are hoping that talks with the U.S. will compel Moscow to become more conciliatory...
Caught in the crossfire was a seemingly unlikely target: Konstantin Stanislavsky, the great Russian actor-teacher. Oddly enough, Stanislavsky has come to symbolize the differences between the two Red goliaths. His realistic "Method" training taught actors to reveal the truth of life; the Chinese dismiss this approach as an expression of bourgeois individualism. When a Chinese paper attacked Stanislavsky as a "paper tiger," Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta shot back that the Chinese theater had been rendered "lifeless and paralyzed" by the Cultural Revolution. It has come to that...
...faction's orators savagely attacked the Prime Minister. Mrs. Tarakeshwari Sinha, for example, won heavy applause by charging that Indira was a "security risk" because of her apparent pro-Soviet leanings. Neither the negotiations nor the attacks, however, prevented the Syndicate from adopting much of Indira's approach in an effort to win popular support...
...Gandhi has no doubt about the effectiveness of her approach among the masses of India's voters. Privately, she seems aware that too rapid a shift toward socialism would damage India's fragile economy and alienate its budding middle class, and she has her foot firmly on the brake pedal. In public, her commitment to socialism knows no bounds-"not because it is a glamorous word," as she said in Bombay, "but because there is no other path for the solution to these problems. The question is, can we do it?" For Indira's half a billion...