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...week the Kremlin signed up a new member in its Hate-the-Six campaign: Communist Yugoslavia. Winding up a ten-day visit to Belgrade, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and Yugoslav President Tito signed a joint declaration that, among other things, condemned the Common Market as a Western scheme to exploit outsiders by raising discriminatory "artificial barriers" against them...
SANE has tried, at great expense, to publicize the magnitude of possible disaster, and to exploit the consequent fear. This was not successful, because the very nature of thermonuclear catastrophe, in which whole cities and nations burst into flame, makes the horror impersonal. It becomes abstract, like the galloping leukemia rate...hardly relevant to any given individual...
...nationalist point of view, foreign investors exploit local resources while stuffing huge profits in faraway pockets. It was no surprise then, when Guillermo Herrera Carrizosa, head of the Colombian government's Development Corp., early this year complained about companies taking more out of the country than they put in. He said that foreign businessmen operating in Colombia bring "little more than technique and a name," charged that instead of increasing the needed inflow of dollars, they develop their profitable enterprises by borrowing from local financial institutions...
...Taylor's underlying point is that the desperate, furious myth-making of the period 1820-1860 was the product of a social order increasingly aware of its failure to grow and mature, and increasingly fearful that "Yankees" would exploit that failure. (Is such myth-making in itself a sign of the dissolution of a society? Taylor does not say so, but I think he suggests that the question, at least, is a reasonable one.) Taylor's Prologue consists of a description of the fascinating and wide-ranging correspondence which ex-Presidents Adams and Jefferson carried on for ten years prior...
...replace strident politics with quiet but determined diplomacy." Russia, of course, preferred the strident approach. In a ranting, two-hour tirade, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko lashed at U.S. policy toward Cuba (see THE NATION). Crammed with 92 separate items, the agenda gives the Russians plenty of opportunity to exploit the Assembly as a propaganda forum...