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...service, both as National Security Adviser and as Secretary of State, from January 1973 until the spectacular collapse of the Nixon Administration less than 19 months later. Next week's third and final installment will recount the increasingly acrimonious debate over detente as Watergate began to drain authority from the U.S. presidency and Kissinger's dramatic encounters with Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung, the men who were guiding the destinies of America's principal adversaries...
...effort seemed to drain him, and I feared for his composure. "History," I said, "will treat you more kindly than your contemporaries have." What I remember is that at that moment I put my arm around him, bridging at the end the distance that had separated us on the human level all these years. Nixon does not report it in his memoirs. So perhaps it did not happen, and I only felt like doing it. Or perhaps Nixon did not want to admit that he needed solace, an emotion that he considered weak but that was in fact the most...
...graduate school days going down the drain," Reinheimer gulped...
...absence of any comprehensive alternative to the NIEO, we should at the very vigorously discussing, with respect to the bilateral and multilateral policies which are the status quo, the political practicality and economic costs and benefits of its key proposals (e.g. elimination of the brain drain from LDC's renegotiation of the debts of LDC's preferential transfer of technology and appropriate industries to LDC's expansion of the Generalized System of Preferences; formation of buffer stocks, producers associations, and indexation programs with respect to the major commodities of LDC's creation of a code of conduct for transnationals...
...lack of privacy, he hesitated about leaving Prague, passing up an opportunity to study literature in Munich when he was 19 and confining himself to the city except for business trips and sanitorium stops: he hesitated about leaving his job with the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, despite the drain on his energies and the interference with his creative work; and finally, in his relationships with women, to whom he was naturally attractive, he hesitated repeatedly, unable to sustain in person the epistolary intimacies he handled so well. It was in this last area that Kafka felt most inadequate, most overshadowed...