Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe he has ever had close friends. Inside the Stalin-era skyscraper that houses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Gromyko takes a special elevator, reserved for him and a few very senior officials, straight to his seventh-floor office. There, except for a meal in a private dining room, he stays all day, reading those documents that Makarov and others on his personal staff feel it is essential to show him, seeing a carefully screened group of senior ministry officials or top foreign visitors, talking on the special Kremlin telephone system, the Vertushka...
Gromyko has little interest in the Third World. He would rarely see Foreign Ministry officials concerned with developing countries and, despite countless invitations, has never visited any black African nation. Except for Cuba, he has never been to a Latin American country. China interests him primarily through the prism of Moscow-Washington-Peking politics. I once had an argument about all this with Vadim Zagladin, deputy to Boris Ponomarev, chief of the Central Committee's International Department. Speaking of Africa, I remarked on the futility of "playing with some pissant little 'liberation' committees that come into being overnight and disappear...
...gaining friends, we would, in many instances, lose credibility. In their own policies toward the Third World, it seemed difficult for Americans to realize that a number of these initially Moscow-oriented countries did not want to emulate the Soviet model. The West's great advantage is that, except in a state of war, in the long run economic assistance will always pay bigger dividends than will military...
...Under my budget proposals," proclaims the President in an accompanying message to Congress, "the growth of programmatic spending--that is, total federal spending except for debt service--will be zero next year." After counting increases in interest on the national debt, expenditures during fiscal 1986, which starts next Oct. 1, would rise only 1.5%, to $973.7 billion (including some off-budget outlays). That would be the smallest hike in 21 years. To achieve that goal, Reagan proposes to whack $42 billion out of what would be spent for nonmilitary purposes under existing law. He would freeze, curtail or even eliminate...
House population should approximate a microcosm of the college population. It is a given that Harvard largely impersonal place. Except in their Houses, students usually are exposed only to students with similar academic and extracurricular interests. Only the House can bring together students of different backrounds and interests. This contact is crucial to the so called Harvard experience. With a more equal distribution of students among the Houses, the quality of undergraduate life at Harvard will improve, giving students valuable experience will survive long after graduation...