Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Chiefs are already overburdened by their functions as service commanders and military advisers. They are inhibited in the decision-making process by the very nature of their organization, and now spend much of their time arguing over the interests of the individual services. The results of these arguments can be delays in carrying out presidential orders, which could be damaging when speed is essential. A single senior officer with overall operational responsibility could act on his own, have U.S. forces on the move in hours...
Moscow at the time had no reason to want peace in the Middle East, since it was in the process of establishing a physical presence there based on the Arab need for help. But neither did it want all-out war. Sisco's mission was to find grounds on which the superpowers might agree in behalf of their clients; he and Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Dobrynin met 32 times in a search for accord. Gradually, the two worked out a tentative agreement that included Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories in exchange for an Arab promise of peace throughout...
...Carswell, even after damaging evidence against them had been turned up by other groups. While the committee might block political hacks, scholars fear that it would favor technically qualified judges at the expense of creative or unconventional men needed to leaven the high court. Walsh acknowledged that the screening process will almost surely produce leaks, thus exposing seriously considered names to public scrutiny-and enabling Presidents to drop unpopular men without loss of face. The quality of the committee's review will depend on the rigor of its investigation. Ultimately, a committee can only discourage the worst candidates...
...these positions is clearly incompatible with the rights which professors have along with all other citizens to express their views on public policy and to participate in the political process. A professor does not lose this right because he is either a hawk or a dove, does research at the CFIA or elsewhere, or is named Huntington or Genovese. Mr. Plotke's views are a challenge to the basic principles essential to the life of both an academic community and a free society.Professor of Government
Indeed, if we want to speak in terms familiar to the banking community, we might say that the immediate political future is a question of whether monetary crises are to be settled through a combined process of devaluation and wage constriction or through a wages policy designed to alleviate material deficiencies based on adjustments in investment flows including arresting the explosion of hot air credit...