Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muskie came across as calm and concerned, if somewhat theatrical. Everyone, he pointed out, is for law-and-order; the Democrats have voted for Nixon's anticrime legislation. What about national unity, he asked. What about racial tension, the environment, economic problems? "There are those who seek to turn our common distress to partisan advantages, not by offering better solutions but with empty threat and malicious slander...
From the swirl of contrary trends, ticket-splitting, upsets and dissimilar contests, one result seemed certain: most voters in most places opted for calm, for reasonableness, for a cessation of domestic hostilities. Spiro Agnew, and Nixon in the final days, dispensed bitterness. The current tenor of conservatism was surely there to be exploited, but not by a narrow, harsh approach reminiscent of Nixon in the 1950s...
...extended cease-fire does at least provide another period of calm in which U.N. Mediator Gunnar V. Jarring can attempt to initiate peace talks. Egypt's foreign minister, Mahmoud Riad, conferred with Jarring in New York last week, but President Anwar Sadat at the same time warned in Cairo that Egypt will scrap the cease-fire unless more serious negotiations take place. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban also met with Jarring in New York, but the Israelis maintain that they will not negotiate through him unless Egypt removes the missiles it has clustered in the Canal Zone...
...seems to mark China's emergence from an almost unfathomable period of mass self-flagellation. Besides economic progress, there are several other important signs that China's rulers have finally cast off the demons of the Cultural Revolution and are committed to a period of relative calm and consolidation. After calling home all but one of its 42 ambassadors during the height of the frenzy, Peking has reassigned 28 to its embassies abroad. Relations were established with Canada in October, and last week with Italy (see box, page 43). Some time soon, Premier Chou En-lai is expected...
These are all possibilities to be foreseen and dealt with. Nixon, when crossed, is a very dangerous man. He can be defeated at the polls if liberals stick together and remain calm. Fortunately it appears that the Democrats will have the kind of men who can effectively counter the Nixon Mania...