Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back home, Church described the gesture as a "very important breakthrough," and said he was certain the White House would find a way to respond. Castro, he added, was a man of "dignity" with "a great sense of justice. I wouldn't pretend the same kind of freedom that is so dear to me here exists in Cuba. But Castro seemed to meet with the affection of the Cuban people wherever he went...
...research began after CIA officials were horrified by Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty's vacant stare and mechanical voice at his 1949 treason trial in Budapest. Drugs and mind-control techniques had long been used by intelligence services, but the CIA feared that the Communists had made some breakthrough. By 1953, the CIA concluded that its worries were unfounded; still the research continued, despite some official misgivings...
...topics of defense and "neutrality" of the zone that American negotiators have scored their most notable breakthrough. Despite cries of Panamanian radicals for a total American pullout, the treaty calls for a gradual military reduction. The number of U.S. troops, now 9,000, presumably would decline and the 14 U.S. military bases would be reduced to four or five by the year 2000. At that time, the U.S. would have to pull out the last of its troops-or negotiate yet another treaty...
...conception of the role is a letdown. There are some absorbing early glimpses of Dr. Fried's sessions with Deborah, but one suspects that several later scenes were cut, as if the film decided to shy away from the struggle of minds. We see Deborah's emotional breakthrough, but the question of precisely how Dr. Fried helped bring it about is fudged...
Washington and many of Italy's other Western allies feared that the deal might amount to a psychological breakthrough for the Italian Communists. But for the moment the U.S. seemed prepared to accept the conventional view that the agreement was a successful tradeoff. "Each side," observed one Italian Cabinet official, "allowed the other to save face, knowing that in politics it is a mistake to over...