Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speeches--little rhetoric, little new, little substance. The Seven Point Peace Plan, which told Nixon if he set a date for withdrawal of all U.S. military forces from Vietnam, the Vietnamese would agree to a ceasefire and release the POW's, was repeated in part. The Peace Plan, the breakthrough in the lifeless Paris talks that Nixon had chosen to ignore, was now being "put to the people rather than the diplomats," one of the speakers told the rally. Now it was the job of the people to get Nixon to pick up the phone, talk to the Vietnamese...
...Administration modestly insists that it seeks only a "normalization of relations" between the two powers. This presumably would include exchanges of trade missions, scholars and journalists, plus some means of regular government-to-government communication, short of formal diplomatic recognition. That package in itself would be a significant breakthrough after a quarter-century of virtual noncommunication. Yet Nixon has long warned that summitry is a dubious tactic unless the expectations it usually creates can be fulfilled. He undoubtedly would agree with a Chinese saying that can apply to political as well as geographical peaks: "Easy to climb up, hard...
Died. Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay, 84, first South American scientist to win the Nobel Prize; in Buenos Aires. Houssay won the 1947 prize in medicine for discovering the role of pituitary hormones in the metabolism of sugar-a breakthrough that played a significant part in the understanding and treatment of diabetes. To the embarrassment of Argentine Dictator Juan Perón, Houssay was awarded the prize shortly after being fired from his post at the University of Buenos Aires for signing a pro-democratic manifesto. The fiercely independent scientist was reinstated following Perón's ouster...
Although Government officials and committee members do not know at this time the funding to be made available or say other individual university. Hale Champion, vice president for Financial Affairs yesterday termed the bill "a breakthrough...
...turns tart or tomelike, Black's opinions initially were mostly dissents, but in the '50s his spare, step-by-step reasoning began attracting a majority. His reasoning served as backbone to such breakthrough decisions as those enforcing Southern school desegregation, expanding the rights of criminal defendants, and requiring state legislatures to be apportioned on a one-man, one-vote basis. His longest fight was a largely successful effort to expand application of the Bill of Rights beyond the federal structure to state courts and agents as well. Despite his acknowledged eminence among colleagues, he remained an unprepossessing figure...