Word: assessments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first senior official of your government to visit the U.S. since the founding of the People's Republic of China, how do you assess the significance of your trip and what do you hope to accomplish...
This was typical of a cautious reportorial consensus until everything began to give way; it was less "pro-Shah" than an attempt to assess presumed elements of strength in a fluid situation. Journalism was never guilty of the reckless effusiveness of Jimmy Carter's 1978 New Year's toast to the Shah's "island of stability." But it also resisted, says the Wall Street Journal's Bartley, those Iranian exiles who wanted the press to "report that the only trouble in Iran is the Shah, and if we only toppled him everything would be peachy...
...Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) remained united. Most of the member states-Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines-received soothing visits and pledges of "good neighborliness" last year from smiling Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh. After the fall of Cambodia, the ASEAN leaders had good reason to assess the guile behind the smile...
...most pressing tasks was to assess the mounting danger of upheavals within the "crescent of crisis" stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea (see cover stories). Nearly as important was the opportunity for a free wheeling exchange about the West's changing relationship with Moscow and Peking, the deadlock over SALT, the U.S.S.R.'s continuing military buildup, and the warfare in southern Africa...
Although Glimp said he has had no direct fund-raising experience, he "used to deal with a few donors" in the Financial Aid Office, and on the Permanent Charity Fund he talked with "people trying to assess prospects for their own campaigns...