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Most leaders went to some effort to refrain from upsetting the heady atmosphere of peace and détente with their speeches. But Harold Wilson delivered a blunt address that accurately reflected the views of Britain's Western allies. "Detente means little if it is not reflected in the daily lives of our peoples," he told the delegates. "There is no reason why, in 1975, Europeans should not be allowed to marry whom they want, hear and read what they want, travel abroad when and where they want, meet when they want. To deny that proposition is a sign...
...Basic Error. As the Russians had hoped, the final form of the declaration states that "the participating states regard as inviolable all one another's frontiers ... and will refrain now and in the future from assaulting these frontiers." With characteristic ambiguity, however, it also says: "They consider that their frontiers can be changed, in accordance with international law, by peaceful means and by agreement." This latter point was the sine qua non for the West German government, since it provides, at least hypothetically, for the eventual reunification of Germany...
...volatile students, from launching assaults on the 39,200 "Zonians"-American servicemen, their families and employees of the Panama Canal Zone Co. "If it was not for this direct contact between Torrijos and the students, there could be a confrontation," says one young Panamanian activist. Torrijos' own reassuring refrain is that "we should not look at things negatively." He has tried to enlist the support of members of the Organization of American States and Third World countries of the United Nations behind his sovereignty campaign...
Until it becomes economically feasible to encourage more saving, Government will need to refrain from discouraging private borrowers by crowding them out of the money market with ever larger Treasury bond offerings. So far, the $59.9 billion deficit envisioned in the current federal budget has not proved difficult to finance. The danger of crowding out in the money market, and the real threat of a capital shortage, lies a year or so away, when the economy picks up added steam and corporations begin borrowing more heavily. But that is hardly a reason for postponing public debate over how to head...
Baryshnikov's life echoes Gene Kelly's refrain, "Gotta Dance." It does not require much stimulation to get Misha's blood stirring. If anything, he has an excess of high-voltage energy. It has been there as long as he can remember. Both he and his mother, a dress fitter in Riga, Latvia, recognized it when he was a child, and they spent a great deal of time trying to channel it. "I was interested in everything," he says, "football, fencing, gymnastics. I even sang in the children's choir. I was also very...