Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What has gone wrong? The roots of the current difficulties can be traced back to 1963, when De Gaulle blocked British entry. Under De Gaulle, in fact, France consistently undermined every attempt to bring the members closer together politically. In a dramatic break with past French policy, President Giscard d'Estaing is now pushing for the very unifying changes that France opposed only a few months ago. He wants many decisions of the Council of Ministers to be made by majority vote rather than by unanimous consent, and he would like to increase the prestige of the Parliament...
...ample treatment. Winterbotham speaks from personal knowledge; this is his book's strength, but also its limitation. He cites tributes to Ultra, including one from Eisenhower who said its intelligence contribution had "shortened the war." Rather qualified praise, apparently. What is needed now is the view from someone closer to the crucial command decisions, to confirm, or to question. Ultra's contribution to victory. The British government has an official history of Ultra under way. Winterbotham's tale makes it Seem long Overdue...
...example." "They come out dirty and his wife has to do it again," Mr. Shih, his colleague, remarked. I only recall one woman saying that her husband does nearly all the cooking--and she explained that that was so "whether he wants to or not, because he works closer to home than...
...class, some with posters. And a sharp ideological struggle took place in my mind, should I correct this or not? And now with the help of the students I have made some progress..." And anyway the athlete didn't typify the young people we met. Most of them seemed closer to Mao's basic quotation on youth, cited in the course of our stay by about a dozen different speakers, each of them evidently pleased with himself for having thought of it. "Young people are like the sun at seven or eight o'clock in the morning," it says...
...position vis-a-vis Israel because that will mean less possibility of moving toward peace. In the Arab Middle East it is well understood that the military option goes via Moscow and the political option goes via Washington. The more the situation is pushed toward the military option, the closer the Arab countries will come to Russia. I hope the U.S. understands this and continues to strengthen Israel militarily and economically; this makes the military option more difficult and brings the Arabs who have any sense back to the political option...