Word: eagers
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Fortunately, notes Kissinger, though Nixon was eager for a summit in 1970, the Soviets overreached themselves and Nixon "did not need it as desperately as Moscow reckoned." The U.S. bided its time, and soon the pendulum was swinging its way. In December 1970, trouble erupted on the Soviets' own doorstep with food-price riots in Poland. In July 1971 came the announcement of Nixon's trip to China. Less than four weeks later, the Soviets formally invited the U.S. President to visit Moscow in the spring of 1972. Kissinger served as a kind of diplomatic advance...
...endured it in dignified silence. Not only was the substance tough but the tone was crudely hectoring. Brezhnev complained not only about our "cruel" bombing but about the whole history of our involvement in Viet Nam. He denied that military actions were needed to end the war. Hanoi was eager to negotiate; all we had to do was to get rid of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu and accept Hanoi's "reasonable" political program...
...first big jump up the ladder took place then), the Second World War, a new wave of purges, the power struggle following the death of Stalin and the intrigue that led to the overthrow of Khrushchev and catapulted Brezhnev to the top. He seemed at once exuberant and spent, eager to prevail but at minimum risk. He had had enough excitement for one lifetime. None of this, of course, changed the realities of Soviet power, which he was augmenting energetically. And this would have to be balanced by our strength, whatever Brezhnev's intentions or professions. Detente could never...
Nicholas Deak, president of the Deak-Perera Group, a major U.S. gold dealer, believes the bulk of the buying can be traced to three sources. Demand from the Middle East remains strong, he says, not only from OPEC governments eager to protect their oil profits from U.S. inflation and the decline of the dollar, but also from peasants and small traders for whom gold remains the most popular portable security. Demand from Europe is accelerating because inflation there is rising. Bullion fever has now spread to Switzerland, reflecting fears about inflation even in that land of granite-hard currency...
Meanwhile, the Peking summit unfolded on other levels as well. Sightseeing trips went off as magnificent spectacles. Hordes of television commentators and journalists converged on each set piece, eager to record the profound thoughts of the leading actors. "This is a great wall," said Nixon to the assembled press at the Great Wall, placing his seal of approval on one of mankind's most impressive creations...