Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Carter opened a new and even more aggressive diplomatic offensive to end the stalemate, and for a time there were signs that events might finally be shifting in favor of the U.S. in at least two ways...
...years these intrepid Seekers of the Universe vanquished Klingons and Romulans before falling to the Ultimate Enemy, the Horribly Competitive Ratings War of 1968. At the end of the 1968-69 viewing season, NBC executives officially cut the Enterprise's "five-year mission" down to three years, and dropped the show from the network schedule...
Pool records fell in all but one swimming event, Maine pulled off a major upset in the medley relay, but in the end it was Harvard's depth that proved decisive as the Crimson handed the shaved Maniacs a 72-41 defeat before a boisterous, upset-minded crowd at Wallace Pool in Orono last evening...
...motivations. Unfortunately the moral is swallowed up and permanently obscured by the simplicity of the characters and the weakness in the plot. We do not perceive the Enterprise crew as thinkers but as doers, whose own motivations are as clouded as those of the enemy they are combating. We end up learning more about the enemy than the human beings. We can assume that Roddenberry meant us to view the alien as a projection of ourselves. It was a good idea, a common theme in Star Trek, but one overwhelmed by the film's flaws...
ABLE TO LEAP logical abysses with a single bound, American leaders have looked at the crisis in Iran and cheerfully decided that it marks a watershed in American foreign policy, an end to the "post-Vietnam era." America's existential agony after Vietnam is over, congressmen and State Department experts contend, and henceforth the American public will be more willing to accept military intervention in Third World nations without questioning the need. The arrogance of a mob of Iranian students in Tehran, in other words, has unwittingly written out a carte blanche for the arrogance of American power abroad...