Word: answering
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...conceived Alliance for Progress had been a disappointment, if not an outright failure, and many disillusioned Latin Americans were seriously asking whether the U.S., preoccupied with Viet Nam and domestic crises, really cared. Not until last week, after more than nine months of reassessment, did Nixon give his answer. "We do care," he told Latin America. "I care." The President could hardly have said less. But how much did he care? And in what ways? Nixon expressed his concern rather quietly, in the form of a sedate and pragmatic U.S. approach to relations with its neighbors. Businesslike and low-keyed...
...signaled a lower profile for the U.S. south of the border and a determination to require Latin American nations to assume from this point on a more active role in guiding their own development. Did it also signal a U.S. desire to disengage? Said a high Administration spokesman: "the answer is no-not disengagement, but re-engagement." Nor would the new policy imply economic isolation, he added. "What it does mean is that we would like to dispel the myth that the U.S. is the instant messiah for miracles." The question remains whether Nixon's proposed partnership asks enough...
Looking even more dour than usual, Couve showed up at a rally of young Gaullists three days after his defeat and attributed the loss to pointless naysaying. "Since I represented something constructive, the answer had to be non, as always, non, the eternal non" he said bitterly. As one of only two former aides who have seen De Gaulle since his retirement (ex-Defense Minister Pierre Messmer is the other), Couve also had a few things to say publicly about the general's plans. De Gaulle realized, reported Couve, that any political meddling on his part "would make...
...sing? "I've been singing all my life," was the answer. Will he dance? "No dancing," retorted Muhammad Ali, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay. Next month the deposed heavyweight champion will make his Broadway debut, starring in the musical version of the Black Power play. Big Time Buck White. What's more, he has some pretty strong notions about what kind of show it will and will not be. As befits a Muslim minister, he insisted on a contract guaranteeing that there will be no unseemly language in the script. And there will be no nudity. There...
...protestors insisted that firms which recruit at the Law School should be required to answer questions about their practices at a public meeting...