Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following page), had no trouble getting the other two. They sailed the pair out of Cherbourg on a trial run, as they had done in the past, carrying a limited fuel supply. Just beyond the territorial limit. Israeli planes appeared overhead and parachuted enough additional fuel for the long run to Haifa...
...possibly because most of the Arab leaders are gradually beginning to admit that Washington's policy is no longer wholly pro-Israel. Since the Rabat summit, in fact, there has been a noticeable decline-outside Egypt, Libya and the Sudan-in the anti-American oratory that has long echoed in the region...
...Soviet schedule is so full that it has apparently affected the 18-nation disarmament talks in Geneva. Diplomats there complain that work on the final draft of the seabed treaty, barring nuclear weapons from the ocean floor, is being held up because Russian negotiators have to wait so long for guidance from the disarmament experts in Moscow, who are apparently preoccupied with SALT...
...some areas, especially economics, there is evidence that the U.S. and Russia have a great deal more in common today than they did a generation ago. America now accepts a degree of "socialism," bureaucratic regulation and welfare statism that would have been considered unthinkable not so long ago. The large corporations that dominate the U.S. economy often resemble branches of government far more than they do textbook examples of free-enterprise capitalism...
...where it has become part of the culture-and it is still a vast distance removed from anything that American society would accept in the foreseeable future. The definitions of "bourgeois" and "socialist" ideologies have changed over the years-and no doubt will continue to change-but in the long run Lenin may well prove to be right...