Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various changes on the whole improved the document by making it more austere and spare. Nonetheless, Jefferson's pride of authorship seems to have been wounded. After the Congress adjourned last week, he sent copies of his original document to several friends, patently assuming that they would see for themselves that it was superior to the one finally adopted. At one point during the session, the mellow Franklin attempted to console Jefferson by telling him an anecdote about a Philadelphia hatter named John Thompson who had a sign made for his shop that read: JOHN THOMPSON, HATTER, MAKES AND SELLS...
...director of Harvard's Russian Research Center said yesterday that the document issued Wednesday at the end of a two-day conference of European Communist leaders in East Berlin did not necessarily indicate any change in Communism...
...document, the result of two years of negotiations, asserts the independence of the various national Communist parties...
Ulam characterized Italian Communist chief Enrico Berlinguer's criticism of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czecholovakia, made during the conference, as "a slap on the wrist." He expressed uncertainty as to whether a similar Soviet action was now less likely as a result of the conference and document...
Keenan added that "one should be very cautious about the interpretation of such a carefully hedged document hammered out by compromise...