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...have done so much to create them. It would be heartening to think that as a result of these 60 years the individual finally managed to come to terms with the social consequences of his liberations, seeing at last that the question he posed as the period began??? How free can one be??was not an exultation but a problem. The trouble all along may have rested with the word freedom, which represents an emotional idea, not a rational one, and thus offers a perilous guide for diverse human beings. In the realm of politics, had the world been...
...Middle East. Though considerable obstacles and hard bargaining remain, it was a major breakthrough in areas that have defied all the efforts of war and diplomacy for three decades. The outcome was substantially more than anyone except perhaps Host Jimmy Carter had believed possible before the summit began???and immensely more than had been anticipated right up to the Sunday on which the summit was to end, apparently in failure...
...felt that the sacrifices in blood that the U.S. had already made in Indochina must not be dishonored and seemingly rendered in vain. So the quest for either a clear victory through Vietnamization and the massive use of U.S. airpower, or a negotiated, face-saving "peace with honor" began???to be accomplished within the four years of his first Administration, Nixon promised...
Whenever the tanks stopped, the interrogations began???surely some of history's most curious confrontations between conqueror and conquered. Hounded by questions, many of the Russians?some of whom were youths no older than 18?looked nervous and stared blankly into the distance to avoid further embarrassment. A few told crowds in the street that they were in Czechoslovakia to protect the people from "counterrevolution" or the "re actionaries" in West Germany. But many had little notion of their mission and were apologetic. "We are only following orders," a youthful paratrooper said to an irate questioner in Prague. "We have...
...only one way to ferret out its many early imperfections. Sikorsky had the VS-300 tied down with stout ropes to keep it from rising more than a few feet. Then he climbed into the seat in his dark business suit and upturned fedora, started the engine and began???as he had in a Russian pasture 30 years before?trying to learn to fly a strange, new and hideously uncertain machine...