Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present SALT talks and has explored multiple options; unlike previous weapons negotiators, its team is "not the prisoner of bureaucratic jockeying to come up with an agreed response" whenever the Soviet Union takes a new position. The talks, Nixon observes, have thus proceeded in "a thoughtful, nonpolemical manner" with "calm, reasoned dialogue...
Campbell looked back and saw "a big black funnel, about 75 yds. wide at the ground, and maybe 500 ft. high." The twister passed over his car, bouncing it up and down a few times; then everything went calm. "Everything seemed to be in slow motion," he says. "I could detect all sorts of things swirling around me. At one point I thought I saw a human body fly past. I could see right through the storm. I suddenly realized I was in the eye of the storm...
...group, which originated at the University of California at Berkeley, includes representatives from over 25 colleges across the country. The stated purpose of the group is to reverse the "delusion" in Washington that the nation's campuses are-and will remain-calm in the face of the Laos invasion...
...appeals-court judges, angered by Tomasini's insults, seemed delighted to comply, reversed Guiot's conviction. Tomasini withdrew his charge of cowardice after meeting with President Georges Pompidou. "Perhaps 'misunderstanding' would be a better word," he said lamely. With Tomasini backtracking and the students appeased, calm was restored for the time being, at least...
...E.L.F. tactics by declaring a state of emergency and placing most of Eritrea, with its 2,000,000 people, under military rule. Asmara, a sunny city of stucco buildings and broad piazzas that is perched atop a 7,600-ft. plateau, shows few signs of trouble. But the calm ends at the city limits. In the hope of denying food to the guerrillas, the army is moving much of the rural population, Viet Nam-style, into some 200 "fortified villages." Rebel activity has fallen off sharply since the army offensive began three months ago, but even a ranking Ethiopian officer...