Word: capitulationism
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Dual Policy. At the same time Kissinger privately expressed regret at Ford's decision to expunge the word détente. He complained that the decision was a petty capitulation to right-wing critics and tended to undercut the long-range policy the Administration intends to pursue. Publicly Kissinger made a...
Still, Kissinger had at least some encouraging news to savor late last week as he was beginning a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels: Representative Otis Pike's House Committee on Intelligence dropped a request that he be held in contempt of Congress. The Administration had angered the...
But arguments about cheap kilowattage and reliable service aren't very attractive to the people who must live with the power plant in their backyard. There was a time when the Francis St. area residents who live closest to the site could have stopped this power plant--or any medical...
Callous Rejection. Despite its cotton-candy quality of diplomatic ambiguity, the document has been harshly condemned by some American political conservatives, as well as by leading dissident Soviet critics of détente (see story page 23), as a capitulation by the West to Soviet power diplomacy and a callous...
A delegation from the U.S. Senate was in Moscow from June 29 to July 2 [led by Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott]. Reportedly, some of the Senators proposed a compromise whereby the Soviet leaders would promise to raise the emigration quota in exchange for the repeal of the [Jackson] amendment...