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State Department officials insisted that the Brezhnev statement was in line with the long-held Kremlin view that détente does not diminish "ideological competition" with the capitalist West. But some experts interpreted his definition of détente as a repudiation of a basic principle enunciated in the 1972 Moscow summit. There the U.S. and U.S.S.R. vowed not to seek "unilateral advantages" against each other. Says a Munich-based Kremlinologist: "The Soviet Union is taking on the role of a world gendarme and is using its advantage wherever a vacuum is created by the withdrawal...
...Crimson football fan, the spectre of Brown as the main obstacle to a Harvard Ivy championship runs counter to long-held instincts...
...rest of the world was disappointing in its predictableness, and was delivered in a manner that at times suggested he did not have a firm grasp of what he was talking about. Instead of a thorough reassessment of U.S. foreign policy, which he had promised, Ford pretty much reaffirmed long-held U.S. positions. As expected, he declared that the U.S.'s difficulties in Indochina did not mean that the U.S. had been rendered impotent elsewhere. "Let no potential adversary believe that our difficulties or our debates mean a slackening of our national will," he warned. "We will stand...
...been the target of growing criticism. Students complain of the ambiguity and elusiveness of his pronouncements. Feminists denounce him for his 1963 essay, Womanhood and the Inner Space, in which he insisted that anatomy is destiny, and that a woman is "never not a woman." He recently repudiated his long-held sunny view of the American character and depicted the nation as a world bully that has "transgressed against humanity and nature." One of his critics, University of Michigan Psychologist David Gutmann, wrote in Commentary last fall that Erikson "has begun to sound less like a psychologist lately than like...
...prepare for the campaign, Jackson has been polishing his policy positions, some of which he is carefully modifying to appeal to a broader spectrum, of Democrats without violating his long-held principles. Among his views...