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Chief Creditor. As for the U.S., said Brezhnev, "it is indisputable" that the recent improvement in Soviet-American relations "has helped attain other aims for which socialist countries have long struggled." Though he alluded to Pentagon efforts to intensify the arms race, he avoided any direct criticism of the U.S. Indeed, even while Brezhnev spoke, Soviet Deputy Trade Minister Vladimir Alkhimov was in the U.S. meeting with businessmen to discuss joint economic ventures and most-favored-nation trade status for Moscow...
...layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being "professional" painters would have appalled them. Nevertheless, it was recognized that one could hardly attain mastery of the brush before...
...posthumously, madness is her theme, her scream and her doom. Ominous presences lurk in the shadows of her lines. Objects, col ors, odors, nature itself claw at the raw, chafed nerves of her being. In these last works she was half in love with death and courted it to attain the only peace that her tormented spirit could apparently know...
Though the Ibos no longer dominate Nigerian commerce or the civil service as they did before the war, they are reconciled to the new order. Gowon is determined that neither they nor any other tribal group shall ever again attain such a preponderant role. "That is the road back to regional rivalry and despair," he says. "We must be proud of our origins, but work for true nationhood as Nigerians all together...
Even these accomplishments could seem insignificant once the modern Magellans attain their goal of understanding the brain's functions in thought, memory and in consciousness-the sense of identity that distinguishes man from all other known forms of life. Finding the key to these mysteries of the brain, a discovery that would suddenly explain these functions, could lead to better ways of treating the psychoses and neuroses that plague millions. It could result in identification and correction of the causes of many neurological disorders and, by revealing how the brain works, revolutionize thought, education and communication. It might even...