Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference, the President also indicated that he was not about to abandon his human rights campaign in the face of Moscow's chilly new attitude toward the U.S. Said he: "I will not modify my human rights statements [which] are compatible with the consciousness of this country ... [and] are not an intrusion into other nations' affairs...
After so many quiet years, what got into the Indians? Some scholars believe they never did fully abandon their hopes of regaining lost land and privileges. In Land Grab (1972), John Upton Terrell argues that from the very first coming of the white man the Indians' primary urge has been "defense, a ceaseless struggle to save their homes, their resources, their lives." This view may exaggerate the constancy of the Indians' will during an era when they were displaced by a relentlessly expanding society. Yet that will has plainly stiffened. In Apologies to the Iroquois (1959), Edmund Wilson...
Carter appears to be flinging about foreign policy ideas with abandon. At his first news conference, he ticked off points for strategic arms talks with Russia. He made personal contact with Soviet dissidents. During the great phone-in he reiterated his intention to try to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba. Last week Carter was at it again...
Arafat, who is chairman of the council's 14-man executive committee, was planning to try to convince his deeply divided followers that it is necessary to 1) participate in a Geneva Conference, 2) come to terms with Jordan's King Hussein, and 3) moderate, if not abandon the P.L.O.'s avowed aim of establishing a "secular democratic" state in all of Israel rather than merely on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...conspiracy launched by the U.S. aerospace industry. Said one Transportation Ministry official: "It is obvious that builders who have 90% of the [aviation] market would be hostile to anything that would not keep it this way." French newspapers and magazines picked up the conspiracy theme-with hysterical abandon. Paris Match, for example, last week breathlessly exposed "The Plot Against Concorde." With French opinion whipped to fever pitch as the Port Authority's deadline neared, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush, who supports the Concorde, considered bolting the steel shutters on the embassy's windows in case of violence...