Word: accords
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...detente in Europe between the Soviet Union and the West is the innovative Ostpolitik pursued by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Until recently, the success of Brandt's flexible policy of accord with the Soviet bloc was virtually taken for granted in the chanceries of Europe. No longer. Today there is a very real danger that more than two years of diplomatic labors could be undone, possibly even drowning Richard Nixon's hoped-for "era of negotiation" in a renewed round of cold war invective. Improbable as it might seem-and to the distress of almost everyone concerned...
...Lebanese government and the fedayeen have an agreement that the guerrillas will not provoke such reprisals by firing into Israel from Lebanon, but no one would admit openly that the accord had broken down. Instead, Lebanon requested, and got, a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in order to ask for a censure of Israel. The Council was particularly angry that the fighting came when it did. Almost simultaneously, U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring was visiting Jerusalem to test the possibility of renewed peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt. The outlook, in light of the renewed fighting: poor...
Herbert C. Kelman, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics has answered my Dunster House critics on the editorial page of the Crimson. The gist of his statement is that he values academic freedom so highly that he would accord it even to me. "Those of us on the Left," he says to his partisans in Dunster House, must defend academic freedom. The Herrnstein article, he grants, "calls for response--including political response," but within the limits of academic freedom (presumably mine). I appreciate the protective impulse, but have some doubts about both its source and its goal...
...beyond Washington's capability. In fact, a number of government officials who are familiar with Huntington's work have suggested privately that his accolade of the urbanization program was probably a tactical ploy designed to interest "hard-headed" Washington officials in his substantive policy recommendation for a political accord in the South...
...unlikely that either side will achieve permanent tactical superiority over the other. At present there is no sign that a negotiated settlement is in the offing, but indecisive fighting and continued unwillingness on the part of Hanoi to release U.S. prisoners of war will make an eventual political accord unavoidable...