Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenes, the breakneck pace, the agenda were all familiar as the chartered jet of President Nixon's emissary touched down at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport. So, too, was the penumbra of latent violence. Soldiers and policemen lined the streets, ready for any further outbursts of hostility against Nelson Rockefeller. By way of a welcoming salute to the New York Governor, terrorists the week before had fire-bombed 13 Buenos Aires supermarkets belonging to a firm controlled by the Rockefeller family...
Filling Chairs. He will have plenty to do. The most pressing immediate problem on the country's agenda is the economy. To curb fast-rising inflation, Pompidou has mentioned the possibility of floating a new state bond issue, which would convert back into savings some of the money that has forced domestic consumption to record heights. As for his longer-range hope of bolstering the economy, he will undoubtedly try to restore a favorable trade balance-which last month ran a deficit of $312 million-by resisting excessive wage demands and encouraging exports through tax incentives or subsidies...
...tour amounted to a cram course in the style and strains of life in the East bloc. To his surprise, the biggest payoff came during a cocktail party in Bucharest. There he overheard a Communist official say that copies of a detailed secret document spelling out the agenda for the summit meeting in Moscow had been sent to party central committees all over the world. Tinnin quickly sent a cable informing the TIME-LIFE News Service, urging correspondents working on the cover to be alert for any opportunity to examine the document. One correspondent eventually succeeded...
Despite their exclusion from the agenda, it was plain that China and Czechoslovakia were the real issues at the conference. On both, the Russians had tried to cover their positions in ad vance. Moscow propagandists a month ago performed their own unilateral ex communication of China by pronouncing that Mao's party now had "nothing in common with international Communism" and was merely the apparatus of a "military clique" ruling China and masquerading as Communists. Since the shooting on the Ussuri River last March, the Russians have been trying to enlist the sympathy of foreign parties and the world...
Even greater than the problem of establishing legitimacy with the students was finding a place in the Harvard power structure. Unlike the new SFAC, which is a Faculty subcommittee, the HUC has never had the power to place its resolutions on the agenda in Faculty meetings...