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Certainly some of Watergate is rooted in Nixon's constant movement. If we are to believe the President, the failure was not a philosophical one but a mechanical one. While he was in his lofty retreats conceiving the grand designs for East-West detente and for revenue sharing, the people he left in charge of the White House were running amuck. Nixon, according to his own account, did not inquire what his aides were doing and did not sense the lawlessness and deceit that grew up around him. He was, among other things, gone too much...
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...ultimate success of the security conference may be determined by how seriously the Soviets follow through on these concessions. Western delegates also will be watching for signs of independence by the U.S.S.R.'s East bloc allies. In the 199 days of preliminary negotiations that concluded last month, they generally remained totally subservient to Moscow-a disappointing augury for a true East-West flow of ideas. One notable exception was Rumania, which sees the conference as a chance for smaller nations to have an important say in matters previously dominated by the superpowers...
What was at stake in the talks between the two men was of inestimable importance to the future of East-West relations-and to peace. Was an era of detente evolving into a time of trade-oriented dollar (and ruble) diplomacy...
...been a long time in preparation. Ruthlessly suppressed after its founding in 1922, the party re-emerged after World War II with a commitment to peaceful democratic evolution. Thanks largely to this low-profile platform, it gained 35 seats in the 1949 elections. The Korean War brought new East-West tensions, however. Reversing course under pressure from Moscow, the Communists adopted a more militant stance that earned them the image of a "Molotov cocktail party." U.S. occupation authorities banned many Communist leaders from political life, and the 1952 elections left the party with no seats at all in the Diet...