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...adds that the effect of Moscow's enormous effort is worrisome. Says he: "The Soviets have created an image of a country that is non-threatening and supportive of India. Because of a record of more than 30 years, Soviet ships in the Indian Ocean are perceived as benign, whereas American ships raise the threat of a superpower confrontation." One ray of hope is that Soviet actions, such as the invasion of Afghanistan, will undo that country's public relations prowess, and that the U.S. will not repeat policy shifts that angered the Indians, such as the Carter...
...U.S.S.R. and occasionally some political accommodation as well. One small example: in 1972 the Kremlin leaders did not cancel a summit meeting with Richard Nixon, even though he had just ordered bombing raids on Haiphong harbor in which Soviet ships were damaged. Soviet intentions then were no more benign and altruistic than they are now. But the Kremlin was willing to play by a few limited rules in order to get American grain, technology and financial credits...
While the doctors insist that an earlier diagnosis of Glicklich's cancer, which they at first believed to be a series of benign cysts, would not have made any difference in Glicklich's case, the prosecution is attempting to prove that late diagnosis allowed the cancer to spread to her brain and may prevent her from raising her nine-year...
...Knesset to call an early election on July 7, four months ahead of schedule. Begin's government had sounded its finale in the kind of unruly Cabinet session that had become a hallmark of his 3½ years in office. The issue had originally seemed relatively benign: a pay raise for the country's 65,000 teachers, approved earlier by a blue-ribbon committee. In the Cabinet, however, the salary question provoked a collision between two stubborn antagonists: Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, who was determined to forestall any new wage spiral that would further boost the country...
...gels as it does here, when it infects all the participants on both sides of the footlights. How I Got That Story makes splendid use of that precious theatrical asset, the playgoer's imagination. Working together, Gray, Rothman, Stern and Gunton-and the audience-create a most benign conspiracy...