Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exports of woolens only 1% annually for the next three years. Even that limit may not be reached, because the pact also contains strict item-by-item regulation of 18 specific categories of products; it allows the Japanese almost no freedom to switch shipments from a slowly selling fabric to one which suddenly becomes in great demand...
...Synods (literally, "meetings") of churchmen have been a part of the ecclesiastical fabric since the earliest days of Christianity. The world synod, however, a representative international gathering of bishops and religious-order superiors, is a creation of the Second Vatican Council. There have been two previous sessions, in 1967 and 1969. Like its predecessors, the synod of 1971 is expected to be mainly a sounding board of worldwide church opinion-"a communications happening," as one Vatican watcher put it. That in itself may be more than Pope Paul bargained for, as not all the sounds are likely to be polite...
...sent to the Senate the treaty draft that restores Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa. Said the President: "The potential for cooperation between our two economies, the world's most productive and the world's most dynamic, is clearly immense." But he warned: "The problems involved in strengthening the fabric of peace in Asia and the Pacific will undoubtedly be challenging. If Japan and the U.S. go separate ways, then this task would be incomparably more difficult...
...head-on carries with it a definite educational value, and some visceral impact. (The gasmask test and hand-to-hand combat training sequences are inevitable stunners). Basic Training does something well-suited to television: it presents events in all their surface complexity, with only the barest contextual or human fabric to support or explain them (thus skirting issues of interpretation). The verite approach doesn't make for art, or even sophisticated social commentary. But unless you've been there yourself, Basic Training is worth watching...
...secret sins don't disappear simply by being confessed. The only real difficulty with the piece is that Feldner seems afraid to take himself seriously (his them is after all an unfashionably moralistic proposition) and so, with every chance he gets, he pokes fun at the playlet's melodramatic fabric...