Word: problems
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...college students to battle urban poverty. The conditions of poor housing and education, however, aren't the only things he is trying to revitalize. Coll says the spirit of activism brought out by the war during the '60s is also worth rekindling, to be directed toward the more persistent problem of poverty...
...Wednesday, Waldheim had made a bit of progress and later told reporters that "both aspects of the problem had been taken into account," referring to Iran's grievances and the freeing of the captives. A U.N. official admitted that it was not much but "there was just enough to make us feel that it would be a mistake to abandon the idea of the commission." Moreover, Waldheim had put an enormous amount of personal effort into the enterprise. Though he has not been highly regarded by the State Department (he is viewed as overcautious and unimaginative), U.S. officials give...
...Vance stressed at a press conference that the Soviets "must pay the cost flowing from the blatant invasion of a neighboring country," Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher took a very different tack. Said he: "We must do everything we can to avoid escalation, make a political solution of the problem possible, and pursue détente...
...attention to it." By the time the campaign began, the country was awash with Joe Clark jokes, many of them crude and unfair. (Which of those two fellows in Santa Claus suits is Joe Clark? Answer: The one handing out Easter eggs.) The jokes were only part of the problem. Far more serious were Clark's inexperience in economics and foreign policy, and a string of broken campaign commitments...
...liar." So wrote Adolf Eichmann, after his four-month 1961 trial in Israel, as he attempted to justify his role in the wartime deaths of millions of Jews. The onetime SS officer who was chiefly responsible for carrying out the Final Solution of the Third Reich's "Jewish problem" even insisted that he was not antiSemitic. Eichmann had made that claim somewhat obliquely in court and more directly in a lengthy "confession" to a German journalist that was published by LIFE in 1960. He repeated that disavowal in a little-known, long suppressed personal memoir that is now coming...