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...Rigid restrictions on news coverage by both governments made the exact shape of the conflict murky, but it was clear that battles had occurred at roughly half a dozen sites along the border (see map, page 31). At week's end, a combination of Indian regulars and Bengali Mukti Bahini (the East Pakistani liberation forces, which oppose West Pakistan's rule over the East) had captured portions of five areas, totaling perhaps 60 sq. mi. of real estate. All along the border, artillery exchanges and firefights kept the situation tense and dangerous through the week. Scene of the biggest battle...
Britain is paying too high a price for entry into a Common Market that is closed, rigid and inefficient, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a Tufts audience last night in the second of a three-lecture series...
That, to put it mildly, is something of an exaggeration. A talented Jew can rise to great eminence in Soviet society, as have Violinist David Oistrakh and Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, but the ordinary Jew is subject to rigid quotas that often bar him from universities and good jobs. Teaching Judaism and Hebrew is illegal; Yiddish culture is severely restricted. In the streets, Russia's traditional anti-Semitism has never really died. "We may not be victims of physical genocide," says Mikhail Zand, a distinguished philologist who recently managed to get out of Russia and settle in Israel...
...context of its historically rigid framework, Thuy's deletion of "peace, independence and neutrality" represented a significant variation from Hanoi's official policy. Thuy communicated a message which, like others delivered by the North Vietnamese in August, 1969, Nixon and his advisors misunderstood. Whether the misunderstanding was truly misunderstanding is still not clear...
...sentiments in a democratic state can have an important influence on policy decisions. But on the other hand, public opinion is largely molded by society's portrayal of facts. Often the interests, if not the motives, of people and government coincide. For example, Ulam chides the U.S. for her rigid anti-imperialism in the late forties. He blames it on idealism, on "the Americans' real incomprehension as to what the international order is or could be in this sinful and complex world." To be sure, the man in the postwar street would have given noble reasons for his opposition...