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...critics were by no means limited to ambitious politicians. In the New York Times, John P. Lewis, onetime U.S. A.I.D. director in India (1964-69) and now dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, wrote: "We have managed to align ourselves with the wrong side of about as big and simple a moral issue as the world has seen lately; and we have sided with a minor military dictatorship against the world's second largest nation." In Britain, the conservative London Daily Telegraph accused Washington of "a blundering diplomatic performance which can have...
...collective will. Heath assured that the result would be accepted by the British people in a way that a decision achieved only by party discipline could never be. That could be a big asset when Parliament begins the formidable task of debating the enabling legislation required to align Britain's laws with the Common Market's. Wilson has promised to fight such legislation "clause by clause and line by line...
...Assembly that would draft a new constitution-Pakistan's fourth since 1947. Yahya thought Sheik Mujib and his restive Awami League would win perhaps 60% of the East's allotment of 169 seats in the 313-seat Constituent Assembly. The remaining East Pakistan delegates, Yahya figured, would align themselves with West Pakistani parties and prevent Mujib from winning majority control over the entire country. But in a stunning victory that amounted to a vote for wide-ranging autonomy, if not outright independence. Mujib's Awami League won 167 of the 169 seats and an overall majority...
...lift of a driving dream" (of which, incomprehensibly, the President seems very fond), he used some highly inspirational rhetoric. "We have gone through a long, dark night of the American spirit. But now that night is ending," he said at one point. Then, attempting to speak past Congress and align himself politically with a widespread feeling that runs from the radical right to the radical left, he made a curious, almost self-condemnatory statement. "Let's face it," he said. "Most Americans today are simply fed up with government at all levels. They will not -and should not-continue...
...father of existentialism and refuser of the Nobel Prize explains that he did not accept the editorship so much "to defend La Cause du Peuple as to defend the liberty of the press." He does not align himself with the rabid left-wing advice blazed in La Cause's headlines to "Enlist everybody in the Guerrillas." Yet the paper does report with surprising accuracy riots, demonstrations and strikes. By becoming editor, he hoped to defend freedom of expression by following in his predecessors' footsteps and getting arrested. Indignant that the French government refuses to seize him, Sartre says...