Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...rituals of international diplomacy, first reactions often mean little, and some U.S. officials in Paris read significance into the fact that nothing said amounted to direct rejection of any of Nixon's substantive points. Instead, the rhetoric's main purpose was to disparage U.S. motives. In Washington, Secretary of State William Rogers declared that at the present rate of withdrawals, U.S. troops "by and large will be out of the combat role" by May 1. This seemed to be a further effort to win the Communists' assent to Nixon's five points...
...Israel were prepared to intervene directly when Russia pressed Damascus to withdraw. Two weeks ago, Soviet air controllers in East Germany attempted to close down temporarily two of the three Western air corridors to West Berlin. Besides, East German police repeatedly held up traffic last week along the main West Germany-West Berlin autobahn...
...fouled the spot where he ate." The Solzhenitsyn affair, however, is potentially far more serious. Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was less a political novel than a lyrically philosophical view of the effects of the Revolution on the lives of people. By contrast, Solzhenitsyn's main works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) are explicit descriptions of the day-by-day degradation that some 16 million Russians unjustly underwent in prisons and concentration camps during Stalin's regime. His books indirectly raise the question of the complicity of Russia...
Steiner's main gripe with the media, and especially the CRIMSON, is the criticism of Yovicsin. "People say Yovicsin is not doing this or that, but if guys are not doing their job, nothing will committee that is picking a new coach work...
CLEARLY the abridgement of First Amendment rights is one of the main issues at stake. If one is afraid that his statements will be put on computerized file, that this record will not be subject to rebuttal, and that the accessibility of this file is not defined, then one's freedom of speech is restricted. If one is wary of joining organizations or groups which may be surveilled, or of identifying with individuals whose views are likely to make him the subject of a file, then one's freedom of association is constrained. If one's freedoms of speech...