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...Thus it must be remembered that both agreements face many tests. The cease-fire arrangement is only the precondition for reaching a Middle East settlement; the chances for a "just and lasting peace" remain slim. By the same token, only future Soviet actions can tell whether the German-Soviet accord will merely confirm the existing division of Europe or whether, as Chancellor Brandt hopes, it will provide an opportunity to overcome that division gradually. Moreover, other crucial negotiations are still deadlocked. As David Bruce assumed his new post as chief U.S. delegate to the Paris talks, the Communists scorned...
...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 the negotiations. Similar talks proceeded simultaneously at the United Nations among the U.S., Russia, Britain and France...
...accord with the rash of egg throwing currently breaking out in England, per "An Eggalitarian Education" [May 18], a fellow student and I took it upon ourselves to test the evidence presented to the public in TIME in order to corroborate the validity of the article. Consequently, we announced to the student body of our small high school that I would throw ten eggs a maximum distance onto the school's luxuriantly soft lawn. Naturally, as this was a sporting event, we could not resist taking a few modest bets from various other students who challenged our claim that...
...Fellows themselves. If this year there has been a bias in the choice of the speakers, it was one in favor of professors who are critical of one or another aspect of U.S. foreign policy. In fact, I don't remember any seminar where the speaker was in accord with the Nixon Administration's policy on the subject...
...notion is not as farfetched as it sounds. Officials at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Rome have already pointed out that the reform contradicts the spirit of the existing French-Italian cultural accord, which encourages each country to increase the use of the other country's language. Since this agreement was based on linguistic reciprocity, Rome has hinted, perhaps French might cease to be the leading foreign language in Italian schools...