Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear to Vice Premier Teng that we want a warm, but correct, relationship-not one of alliance but of cooperation." Carter urged Teng to look at things from the Soviet perspective. It was pointed out that Moscow claims to be as anxious about the Chinese masses on its eastern frontier as Peking is about the Soviet military buildup...
...writes about Amsterdam policemen and the statutes and terrors that govern their lives, but this casual author makes Sjöwal-Wahlöö look like Ellery Queen. Van de Wetering's novels meander along, with asides on the foibles of human nature and gracefully written filaments of Eastern philosophy. The plot is announced early in the narrative and dispatched at the end as quickly as a victim. The author, 48, was once a Buddhist monk in Japan (he wrote about that arduous life in An Empty Mirror). He returned to The Netherlands, spent some time in the Amsterdam...
Riding the crest of a wave of confidence reinforced by last week's win at Princeton, the Crimson aquajocks routed yet another Eastern League foe, Cornell, 66-45, Saturday at Blodgett Pool to raise their undefeated season's slate...
...doctoral dissertation was on "Psychological Techniques in the English Civil Wars") and during the war he was assigned to the Near East where he served in army intelligence. Later he was recruited by the CIA and in early 1953 was station chief at Beirut in the Lebanon. Roosevelt's Eastern manner was a perfect facade to hide his role as a covert operator--"the last person you would expect to be up to his neck in dirty tricks" as Kim Philby, the English spy wrote later...
Anthony Spalinger, lecturer in Near Eastern Languages at Yale, said yesterday he would prefer to teach a course in Ancient Egyptian culture and civilization...