Word: foreign
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...Inauguration, the Nixon Administration signaled an end to the presidential interregnum-that period after the previous chief executive has departed and before the new one has found his pace. Though Richard Nixon remained fascinated by procedure and form, the predominant note of the week was movement. In both foreign and domestic policy, the U.S. for the first time felt the guiding hand of its new leadership...
...American Studies. From his office in a renovated 18th century mansion in Moscow, Arbatov presides over a research staff of some 50 youngish, English-speaking specialists, a growing library, and space for a prestigious, soon-to-be-installed computer. The staff is made up of economists, historians, lawyers, foreign affairs specialists and social scientists, including a demographer. Anatoly Gromyko, son of the Soviet Foreign Minister and author of a book on the Kennedy Administration, is a member specializing in U.S. foreign policy...
...review in the government newspaper Izvestia of the Brookings Institution's Agenda for the Nation. Said Arbatov: "One discovers in this book what is probably one of the basic problems of the U.S. today-the organic link between internal difficulties that have reached an unprecedented height and the foreign policy course that Washington pursues...
...Kremlin (Arbatov is said to have the ear of Premier Aleksei Kosygin). But the institute has announced an ambitious publication list-none of it so far available-for this year. Arbatov plans to bring out a monograph showing the influence of ideology on foreign policy. Deputy Director Evgeny Sergeevich Shcherchnov, an economist, is scheduled to publish a study of trade policy, and a group of specialists, including Gromyko, is expected to produce a work on U.S. foreign policy doctrines and machinery. There are also plans for a regular journal, and even talk of teaming U.S. and Soviet specialists to work...
...Dumb. Others besides campesinos have experienced this unique presidential abrazo. Tin exports account for 78% of all Bolivia's foreign exchange, and tin miners are thus a potent group that strikes frequently. During one protest against Barrientos in 1967, the President went down into the mines to confront them. An angry miner held out a dynamite stick and, to scare the President, threatened to blow the assemblage higher than Bolivia's Andean Altiplano. Barrientos grabbed the stick, held it out to be lit and called the miner's bluff. Last year Barrientos took charge in the jungle...