Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nicholas Bloembergen. Rumford Professor of Physics, decided to cancel his planned three-and-a-half week tour of the Soviet Union in June, which included a lecture in Leningrad and visits to several laboratories around the country...
...feeling that the Russians are getting away with too much in the world today and that, as last week's statement by the Republican Senators charged, the Carter Administration is to blame. Carter has undoubtedly made tactical errors in dealing with Moscow and may have been wrong to cancel the B-l bomber. But it is also too easily forgotten that tough talk and gestures do not amount to coping with Moscow. As far as local conflicts with the Soviets or their agents are concerned, post-Viet Nam America abhors any form of foreign intervention, and a President...
...scope of the congressional review or the action by Congress." He reiterated Carter's press conference point that the sales requests would indeed be sent to Congress individually−but simultaneously. If any of the three sales was disapproved, the President would still be in a position to cancel the others...
Moffitt projects three reasons for the junta's "assassination" of Letelier. First, the government was "terrified of the Democrats coming to power because of the possible cut-off of loans." In early 1976, Letelier managed to convince the Dutch government to cancel its $60 million loan to Chile. In addition he met with the heads of the dockworkers union and convinced them not to unload Chilean goods--not only in Holland but anywhere in the world. Shortly after this successful trip, Moffitt says, the Chilean press began to extensively cover Letelier's activities. He notes how Letelier and his wife...
...activities.) The sky was getting lighter by this time, and the coming day was clearly The Enemy, a foot-tapping, non-verbal "Hurry up please, it's time." The approximately 120 people who remained had no idea what to expect: perhaps they would have to cancel the sit-out and slink home to bed, or else maybe they would stay and forge something for the coming day and the future...