Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politicians do share a pessimistic attitude toward the potential effects of the Kissinger negotiations. Aloni is extremely doubtful about Kissinger's chances of achieving a breakthrough in the Middle East. "The Rabin government gives Kissinger more credit than the average person. We are all aware that he won the Nobel Prize for Peace, yet there is no peace in Vietnam...
...This was the year of the breakthrough for women," declared Frances T. ("Sissy") Farenthold, chairman of the National Women's Political Caucus. In addition to the Democratic triumph of Governor-elect Ella Grasso of Connecticut, Democrat Janet Gray Hayes, 47, of San Jose, Calif., became the first woman mayor of a U.S. city of more than 500,000, and Democrat Susie Sharp, 67, of North Carolina, the first woman chief justice of a state supreme court. For the first time, New York chose a woman, Democrat Mary Anne Krupsak, 42, as Lieutenant Governor, and Californians elected Democrat March Fong...
Hoping for the breakthrough that might eventually put them in power, some Communist Party leaders, meanwhile, are quietly pressing the idea of power-sharing on their own. "Even today the Italian Parliament just doesn't work unless there is prior agreement between us and the Christian Democrats," says Giorgio Amendola, the Communists' No. 2 man. "The Christian Democrats would like to leave it that way, and we would be willing too-if it worked. But it doesn't. So what there could be is some more visible form of cooperation, such as regular consultations. We want...
...little progress has been made since the first round of SALT negotiations ended in 1972. At that time, a treaty was signed on limitation of defensive missile systems (ABM'S), but an interim agreement on the deployment of offensive nuclear arms extends only to 1977. Unless some significant breakthrough can be made soon, the idyl of American-Soviet détente may be lost in the nightmarish shuffle of an accelerated arms race. Well aware that peripheral agreements on scientific collaboration and cultural exchange cannot compensate for failure to achieve this central goal, Kissinger went into the talks with...
...Liberals, whose striking gains in February (19.3% of the popular vote and 14 seats, with one later addition) had threatened the traditional two-party political system, not only failed to make an electoral breakthrough into major-party status but lost two of their seats at Westminster...