Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Notetaker. When Sonnen-feldt's statements first leaked to the press, Kissinger tried to explain away the views attributed to his aide by saying that the cable was written by "some notetaker who summarized what he thought Sonnenfeldt meant." Last week White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen suggested that the whole "misunderstanding" over the remarks might have stemmed in part from the distortions of the notetaker "who did violence" to what Kissinger's man had said...
...furor began when Carter was asked in Indianapolis to explain his recent statement that there was "nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained" in neighborhoods. Carter replied that he wholeheartedly supports open-housing laws that make it a crime to refuse to sell or rent a house or apartment on the grounds of race, color or creed. But he opposes Government programs "to inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration." Said he: "I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians...
Bolstering her narrative with a rather cumbersome psychohistory, Kearns tries to explain Johnson's massive drive to power. She makes much of the fact that his father, a small farmer and real estate trader, insisted on displays of manliness from him, while his mother emphasized gentility. Lavish with her love at times, his mother withheld it when he displeased her. Out of these inner conflicts, Kearns traces the development of a tormented, driven politician. But Johnson may also have been shaped as much by Texas and national political traditions. His political education began amid rural poverty...
...issues and his skill in handling complex situations. Although he has had little experience in foreign affairs, Hua, while Acting Premier, was designated to conduct discussions with former President Richard Nixon in Peking last February. During those talks he was careful and cautious, often referring to briefing papers to explain the Chinese position. He confirmed the basic foreign policy guidelines set down by Chou Enlai: China's desire to normalize relations with the U.S., its willingness to be patient on the Taiwan issue and its continuing hostility toward the Soviet Union...
...jungles along the border-describe the revolution as a chilling form of mindless terror. In sharp contrast to Laos and Viet Nam, where party cadres have subtly tried to win popular support for social change, there are no revolutionary songs, slogans, poetry, party newspapers or "reeducation" centers to explain the purpose and ideology of the revolution. Instead, refugees told TIME Correspondents William McWhirter and David Aikman there has been a grim, silent round of purges, mass evacuations, forced labor and willful assassinations that have swept up the innocent along with the guilty...