Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Basic Error. As the Russians had hoped, the final form of the declaration states that "the participating states regard as inviolable all one another's frontiers ... and will refrain now and in the future from assaulting these frontiers." With characteristic ambiguity, however, it also says: "They consider that their frontiers can be changed, in accordance with international law, by peaceful means and by agreement." This latter point was the sine qua non for the West German government, since it provides, at least hypothetically, for the eventual reunification of Germany...
Some observers believe that the Russians made a basic error in their negotiating tactics. Once Brezhnev had publicly scheduled the 25th Soviet Party Congress for next February, he was caught in a tight squeeze. To meet that deadline, he had to get the Security Conference completed, then move to a new SALT agreement and a successful trip to Washington. In the end, the Russians simply had to make more concessions than they wanted to on Basket Three. "We didn't even have to go to our fallback positions on most of the Basket Three issues," says one Western negotiator...
Fanfani has never been known to back down from a fight. He opened the six-day council with a lengthy speech that defended his hard-line political stand and made only vague mention of error or misjudgment. He also said that he would not step down voluntarily as secretary. "My flight would only produce further damage," Fanfani said. Amid angry cries of "blackmail," he linked his own political future to that of the fragile center-left coalition government of current Premier Aldo Moro...
...essential that Spain should not repeat the Portuguese experience. In my opinion there are many negative developments in Portugal. Soares and the Popular Democratic Party have been thrown out, and I consider it an error. I have shown and will show my disagreement with certain political aspects of the Portuguese Communist Party...
...good guys and the bad guys are, and within its constructs the ambiguity toward wealth is temporarily resolved. Kind Hearts and Coronets, the famous British film comedy on the same theme, is in fact so moralistic that in the end nobody wins out, everyone having been clearly shown the error of his greedy ways. Nichols tampers fatally with the format by making the heiress the one who wants to give it all away, and the two men selfish dopes who don't deserve the money but apparently get it anyway. The moral simplicity of the tale is so distorted...