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...more than three decades, Veteran Negotiator W. Averell Harriman, 82, has helped shape U.S. foreign policy. Among his varied duties, the roving diplomat has served as administrator of the Marshall Plan in Paris, chief negotiator of the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty and Ambassador to Moscow. Always a blunt and clear-eyed evaluator of Soviet intentions, Harriman recently returned to Moscow for a three-hour private discussion with Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, he discussed the state of U.S.-Soviet relations...
With newsmen listening, Faisal chose to describe his worries at an all-male state dinner in the royal guest palace. As the smell of incense wafted through the huge, high-ceilinged rooms, the King delivered a blunt if hyperbolic message to his guest: "The injustice and aggression that were wrought upon the Arabs of Palestine are unprecedented in history." Although he praised the peacemaking efforts of Kissinger and Nixon, the King warned: "There will never be a real and lasting peace in the area unless Jerusalem is liberated and returned to Arab sovereignty, unless liberation of all the occupied Arab...
...does Coleman emerge with even the slightest dedication to change in the social sturcture? Does he, with his blunt horse sense, stumble upon even the simplest analysis, that garbagemen should make more than doctors because their trade is more physically taxing? Or does he, with his background in labor economics, volunteer any even slightly liberal measures to redistribute wealth? He does not. He writes...
...leader's freewheeling reminiscences bear directly on many contemporary issues. He discusses hitherto unknown incidents that contributed to the present Moscow-Peking conflict. He provides insights into the Soviet missile buildup, and the mutual suspicions that prevented any Russian-U.S. arms limitations accord. Khrushchev also presents typically blunt assessments of contemporary world political figures he dealt with, including Mao Tse-tung, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon...
...coincide with a known subject." Composition, in short, gives us our sense of reality. In this way, Gris was the most formal of all the cub ists. Picasso's formality was modified by his enormous appetite, Braque's by his aristocratic fervor, Leger's by his blunt populism, but Gris was obsessed by shape and only by shape...