Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's European consultations are part of a new stance toward the Soviet Union, an approach that is coming to be known in Washington as "total diplomacy." By building Western unity, President Nixon hopes to strengthen the U.S. position across the spectrum of common concerns with the U.S.S.R. In the President's now familiar words, he believes that this should be "an era of negotiation instead of confrontation." Unlike his predecessor, he also believes that negotiations should cover tough global political differences as well as the purely military matters that the Russians have been more eager to discuss...
SINCE the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, the single most important element in Middle East peacemaking has been the attitude and policies of the U.S. Last week, 20 months after the war, Washington began a round of bilateral talks at the United Nations aimed at exploring common ground for a settlement. If that provided a sense of diplomatic movement at last, it was also a tacit admission that the Johnson Administration's policy of letting the two sides work out their differences themselves is no longer valid. For better or worse, the move committed the U.S. to the first...
...factional clashes was Father Ma-teus Gwengere, a militant Catholic priest who fled Mozambique in mid-1967 and since then had consistently opposed Mondlane. Last July, however, Mondlane seemed to have reconciled all the opposing factions within Frelimo. After persuading them that continued conflict could only harm their common cause, he went on to stage party elections in a "liberated area" of northern Mozambique. It was a dramatic propaganda victory, and Mondlane was confirmed as head of Frelimo. Nevertheless he was forced to expand the membership of Frelimo's executive committee to pacify his rivals...
...COLLECTED statutes of the Common-wealth of Massachusetts are replete with quaint laws bearing titles little changed since the 19th century. Over the years, the state has allowed the most archaic of these to die in practice through lack of enforcement. One that has not died is the state's anti-birth control law, contained in the statutes under the heading "Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency, and Good Order...
...provide more opportunity for students to have an appropriate role in decision making. Today's students are in the main a highly serious a lot who have been increasingly eager in recent years to be treated not as inferiors but as younger colleagues working in a common enterprise. In many instances, particularly in the more advanced programs of the graduate-professional schools, there can be no doubt they...