Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lopsided Vote. The focus of the struggle was a deceptively soft-spoken black woman, Mrs. Patricia Roberts Harris, a former dean of the Howard University School of Law and Lyndon Johnson's ambassador to Luxembourg. Chosen by the regulars for her race and her sex, Mrs. Harris was matched against Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, nominator of Eugene McCarthy, onetime presidential contender in his own right and a tough, no-nonsense reformer. The outcome of the National Committee's voting was lopsided: 72 for Mrs. Harris, 31 for Hughes...
This documentary-like introduction goes on for several minutes, and then there is a delicate but crucial shift of focus that signals a complete change in the film's perspective. Coutard's camera is following an American jeep traveling down a Saigon street; suddenly, through an adjustment of the camera lens, the jeep is gone, and attention is fixed on a Vietnamese bicyclist. From that moment the film has stepped inside the Vietnam War. The frame of reference is wenched from the Americans and returned to the Vietnamese...
...negotiations will focus on the crucial Taiwan and Vietnam problems. Chou En-lai demands unequivocal sovereignty over Taiwan and abandonment of America's presence on Chinese soil. Chou will remain no less adamant in his support for Hanoi and his refusal to dictate a settlement. Nixon must face these central realities of China's foreign policy. If he expects to negotiate seriously, America must abandon its illegitimate presence in Taiwan...
...more radical church stand against capitalism and "neocolonialism." Others, concerned with population problems, want the church to discourage parents from having large numbers of children. The Pope may even hear his position on birth control attacked to his face. Sessions on the priestly ministry have already begun to focus on the controversial question of celibacy...
Saturday's sessions will be devoted to the problems confronting returned American veterans, especially drug addiction and unemployment. Discussion will also focus on the conditions of VA hospitals...