Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...integrate very complex and varied trends into patterns worldwide so that the U.S. can have definite priorities and be able to define its objectives clearly." Other experts like Hoffmann feel that the Secretary must not become prisoner of a rigid view to which he tries to make every world event conform. But unless the foreign policy chief can relate events in one part of the world to those in another, and shape a strategy that pursues the same goals in all, he is likely to be trapped in a series of ad hoc, inconsistent responses to breaking crises...
Relations with the Soviets. What we are observing is the consequence of 15 years of increased military spending by the Soviet leadership. Clearly, the task ahead for us is the management of Soviet power. We can no longer view every deleterious event that occurs in the context of Soviet duplicity. But we cannot refrain from challenging illegal, blatant Soviet intervention creating terror and blackmail in the Third World. On Soviet Intentions. The next...
...days after they had begun to fast, seven Irish Republican terrorists imprisoned in the gray concrete H-block cells of Belfast's Maze Prison started to eat again. The end to the long hunger strike came as at least one of the prisoners lay near death, an event that authorities feared would inevitably have sparked a new wave of I.R.A. bombings and shootings throughout Northern Ireland and England...
...cordial gratitude" to Kosygin. Even that faint praise came after international surprise over Kosygin's unceremonious exit from power. Last week news of Kosygin's death of a heart attack in the Kremlin hospital was treated in more generous fashion. A day and a half after the event, the Soviet government and Communist Party made the announcement "with deep sorrow...
...symptom of hyperactive intelligence. The criteria for talk should be appropriateness and pertinency. The essential question is: Does it subtract from or enhance the moment into which it falls? The deeper reason that sports commentary is annoying is that it so often ruptures the flow of the main event. The effect is easier to see when one imagines it occurring in the middle of a true drama, Othello...