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...facility at digesting official dossiers became legendary and led to his own decision-making shorthand style. "Vu" meant seen but waiting for better arguments. "Soit" meant so be it, but not the best solution. "Oui" meant O.K., but he still had reservations. Only the best dossiers got a "D'accord," meaning that the matter was settled. Pompidou began to enjoy politics with a gusto, and it showed even in his complaints. "I am bombarded with daily problems," he said one day. "I handle dossiers of a burning actuality. Everything is urgent at Matignon [the Premier's office]. But when...
ARABS and Israelis found themselves in a rare moment of accord last week. In Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir told a Hebrew University audience: "Even our best friends do not have the right to decide for us what our conditions for peace and security should be." In Cairo, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser asserted to the Congress of his Arab Socialist Union: "No one can impose on the Arab nation what it considers to be inconsistent with its historical rights...
...guarantees that North Vietnamese troops will depart at approximately the same rate as its own, and assurance that the present Saigon government has the facilities to maintain its own security. Hanoi has expressed willingness to negotiatevftn the first condition, but adamantly insists that the U.S. must reach a separate accord with the National Liberation Front on the second?the better to emphasize the Front's legitimacy. At stake is the eventual future of a South Viet Nam without foreign troops?but faced with a sizable number of native Communist insurgents...
...Demian and Laing's Politics of Experience. Like the hero of Hesse's Demian both boys felt a need to withdraw from the definitions and demands of the academic and business worlds, to explore and cultivate a world inside them, "to try to live," in Hesse's words, "in accord with the promptings which came from the true self." They sensed an inner reality which was as consistent and self-validating as the external reality with which it was at odds...
...believe, the majority of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Design, are in full accord with the statement of the 113 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 17 and the response of President Pusey. The intrusion of students into a classroom a Hunt Hall for the purpose of influencing the content of a course was an extremely serious infringement of academic freedom and threat to the foundations of the university community...