Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BEYOND the dollar storms and the sump that is Watergate, there is a bigger world, and it is coming together in a manner that brings some hope this springtime. In that world, the Richard Nixon of the long head and the calm eye resides. There, too, walks Henry Kissinger, the most remarkable presidential creation of this century. The two are trying to cement global tranquillity into permanent peace...
...chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only the old folks in Shanghai look at the foreigners knowingly. They have seen them before...
There is a shortage of such staples as sugar, salt and soap, but Kampala appeared calm. Amin still seems to be popular with most Ugandans, who attribute the sporadic killings by the army to dirty work done by subordinates without his knowledge. Since 80% of the country's 10 million people live as subsistence farmers more or less outside the cash economy, the threat of a commercial collapse in the capital does not worry Amin inordinately. The coffee and cotton crops are earning foreign exchange, and Uganda's hard-currency position seems to be strong enough to permit...
There are few other options, though. President Nixon emphatically declared that "there will not be another devaluation" of the dollar, adding that U.S. currency is basically "sound" and that "we will survive" the crisis. Moreover, a third dollar devaluation would probably aggravate rather than calm speculation by destroying whatever faith in the greenback is left among the people who hold the $70 billion that U.S. balance of payments deficits have spilled out abroad. Government controls on capital movements limit international economic freedom, and have not worked anyway. And something must be done to stop the dollar pandemonium...
...When I first saw Lisa in action, she was explaining to the Harvard dean of Freshmen, F. Skiddy von Stade, '37,--twice her size--why a group of striking hospital workers had disrupted a class at the Graduate School of Design. The Dean was no match for Lisa's calm and intelligent reasoning. "I have no qualms about disrupting your University's classes, it is clear to me that the dispute at the hospital is as important to the education of your students as their daily homework assignments," she said...