Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boycott for divestiture is more than a cathartic exercise on a spring day. Divestiture would help black South Africans. Even a symbolic gesture by Harvard University would have impact on other groups and on government policy. It is naive, if not paternalistic, to expect corporations to help blacks, as, apparently, President Bok and some of the teaching fellows do. It is as naive to expect that anyone in the U.S. will provide arms to the blacks (this would, of course, be more effective than divestiture), as other signatories of this letter do. Divestiture is the only sort of pressure that...
...Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "Brezhnev could attend a couple of dinners and read a paper or two, but he is in no shape to engage in real give-and-take with Carter. It will be a pro forma summit, and it would be useless to expect anything more." Though signing a SALT agreement would be very important, Carter is disappointed at the lack of prospects for going further. Said a top White House adviser: "The President really wanted to sit down and have a good exchange with Brezhnev. We might have been able to do that...
...refugees let loose by Moscow's easing emigration policy. Said a young engineer from Kiev: "I tried so long to leave and wanted so much to come here. I can't believe it." Said Sofia Mineyeva, a young English teacher also from Kiev: "In the U.S., I expect all my dreams to come true. This is a free country...
...tailor in Piacenza in Northern Italy, Casaroli began studies for the priesthood at 14, and has spent his entire career in the Secretariat of State. Vatican prelates expect his genial, flexible style to balance that of the tough, demanding Pole. Remarks one: "John Paul would tell you to jump out of the window. Casaroli will persuade you to do so after an hour's talk...
...fingers together and placing them in the palm of the other hand means "He's so lazy hair grows on his palms." The famous Gallic shrug with palms extended says "It doesn't worry me," but if the palms are raised chest high it becomes "What do you expect me to do about...