Word: calme
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While the savage battle raged in the Sinai, the northern front was relatively calm. Syrian forces had been bolstered by contingents from Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, but for most of the week the front was stable. Having cleared Syrian troops from most of the Golan Heights, the Israelis had carved out a comparatively narrow salient aimed at the heart of Syria before being stopped near the village of Saassa about 23 miles from Damascus. It appeared that the Israelis were content to solidify their gains there while turning their attention to the Sinai...
...that Israel had fired the first shot in the renewed fighting. Although they excoriated Israel as the aggressor in a general sense and, of course, denounced Israeli bombing of the Soviet Culture Center in Damascus, the polemics were relatively restrained. For its part, the U.S. appeared determined to be calm and polite. Said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "We do not consider that Soviet actions as of now threaten detente." In fact, he said, Soviet behavior, while not "helpful," has so far been "less provocative, less incendiary and less geared to military threats" than during...
Japan's tough, wary Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was positively lyrical last week as he ended a four-day visit to Moscow. Addressing a farewell press conference, he declared: "Our relations with the Soviet Union can be compared with the smooth, calm flow of the Moscow River. The atmosphere of our talks was as sunny as the fine weather here this week." It was, of course, an exaggeration, but understandable in the circumstances. The atmosphere during the first three days of Tanaka's talks with Kremlin leaders had more closely resembled a squall on the Black...
DISTANT THUNDER. Satyajit Ray's movies all have the shimmering, unhurried feeling of a long, waning afternoon. This one, about the early years of World War II in Bengal and the beginnings of the 1943 famine, shows the grace and calm authority of his best work, as well as his ability to shape great themes into h man drama without reducing them. Ray flirts with melodrama here, but Distant Thunder gathers a quiet force that makes most objections incidental. Better even than its treatment of the reality of poverty is the way Ray handles the subtle shifts it causes...
Bangkok was calm yesterday as Thailand's new premier named a civilian-dominated cabinet to replace the military regime overthrown by a student revolt this week...