Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Activist Kate Millett's scorching Sexual Politics (TIME, Aug. 31, 1970) drew a frenetic reply in Norman Mailer's celebrated Harper's article, "The Prisoner of Sex," which excoriated many of Millett's arguments but concluded in grudging capitulation: "Women must have their rights to a...
America essentially negotiated out of weakness despite all the media hype. As the late Edgar Snow reported, the Chinese believe that the failures of the Cambodians and Laotian invasions led Nixon to recognize his ultimate defeat in S.E. Asia and of the strategies of containment and enticement. With intensive "protective...
In essence America abandons its claim to any say on the final status of Taiwan and agrees to let this internal question be settled "by the Chinese themselves on a bilateral basis. The Chinese were generous in their return concessions. Nothing at all was mentioned about America's defense commitments...
A new element in the controversy will be the appearance in the next several weeks of a Canadian government report, which will propose legislation for regulating foreign-owned businesses-most of them U.S.-controlled-in Canada. Though the new rules probably will not be as strict as Canadian nationalists would...
Prison would become a personal purgatory for George Jackson, but such was not the case in his first incarceration at Paso Robles. After partially recovering from the initial shock of capture, he learned how to feign the capitulation which the authorities were attempting to elicit and was released shortly before...