Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign-policy timetable. The elections are due in another three years, and on that timetable we are in no hurry. Yet there is a foreign-policy calendar with its own dates. It is on that schedule that we should try to make our opinions heard very loud and clear and to add our own contribution to policymaking. There are times when the leadership has to represent the wishes of the people and other times when the leadership has to lead. The peace negotiations are the overriding consideration of our people, and this is guiding...
...internal settlement that Prime Minister Smith worked out last March with three moderate black leaders?Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau?had not been expected to provide an easy transition to black majority rule in Rhodesia. Last week it was clear that Smith's settlement plan had not only faltered, but might be close to failure...
...behavior," remarked a State Department official. "But if the Soviets were intent on flexing their muscles, they might send in navy vessels instead of lumber and fishing boats." Whatever the Russian motivation for straying into foreign territory, NATO vessels last week took part in Norwegian exercises that steered clear of the zone frequented by Soviet intruders...
...observed that if Lesley's fallopian tubes were intact, Steptoe would not have irrefutable proof that Louise was conceived in a test tube. But, Steptoe said with evident satisfaction, "I was able to show that the tubes were absent." Lesley, he explained, had had an operation in 1970 to clear her blocked tubes?but with no success. After she was referred to Steptoe in 1976, he did an exploratory operation and found "there were mere remnants of her tubes." Because these remnants blocked his access to the ova, Steptoe removed them...
...among photographers that the camera's testimony about news was "opaque and superficial." He roundly states that "good photographers had long since known?whether or not they admitted it to their editors?that most issues of importance cannot be photographed." So one of the messages of the show is clear: in the judgment of MOMA?the first American museum to treat photography systematically as an art and perhaps the most powerful taste-forming museum in the country?the documentary or "concerned" tradition, which ran from Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine through figures like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White...