Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That fury was unleashed because, in Nixon's view, the North had acted in bad faith in the negotiations. In October, the U.S. says, the North agreed to separate the question of American prisoners from the fate of Vietnamese political prisoners being held by the South Vietnamese government of Nguyen Van Thieu. Subsequently, they demanded that the two issues be treated together-no Americans released unless Thieu also opened his jails. This Nixon refused to do. "One of the President's major considerations" in resuming the bombing, according to one aide, "was the conditions the North Vietnamese attached...
...position than he was before the bombing. He will have gained nothing but the renewed mistrust of many European statesmen as well as a large segment of the American public. Having so dramatically expressed his dissatisfaction with the current demands of the North, like their insistence on tying the fate of American prisoners together with that of political prisoners in the South, it would be doubly difficult now to turn around and accede to any more of those demands. If anything, the bombing, far from making future negotiations easier, could make them even more arduous...
...disturbing to read "Apollo 17: Farewell Mission to the Moon" [Dec. 11]. The destiny of man involves the search for truth. What can be the fate of a nation that has the means to further the search for knowledge and understanding through the exploration of space, yet does not dp so because of its own seeming loss of spirit...
...Daddy's speech did not clarify the fate of 780 Britons-including 565 teachers, 77 university instructors and 45 doctors-who are in Uganda under a British-aid program. The British government, which pays 40% of their salaries, had announced that these subsidies would be phased out over a two-year period. In his broadcast Amin appeared to say that British-aid employees would have to decide by Dec. 31 whether to stay on at "local salaries" -that is, by taking a 40% pay cut-or leave the country. Later he softened the blow a bit, however, by announcing...
...CHILD CALLED NOAH by Josh Greenfeld. A father's account of caring for an autistic child, told with extraordinary tact, and a quiet outrage against fate and the medical system...