Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water is high so that the falling tide will lessen the stench. On the island of Bidong, site of Malaysia's largest camp, conditions were considered critical six months ago when the camp's population was 15,000. Today 45,000 people are crowded into 30 acres. French doctors aboard a privately chartered hospital ship stationed offshore have asked Pope John Paul II to visit Bidong, adding: "On this island today beats the heart of our sick world...
...French critique of Utopia
...bomb or that Gaddafi paid for a gas centrifuge plant. Officials do acknowledge that research is being carried out on uranium enrichment, but they insist the fuel will be used only in nuclear reactors. The Pakistanis, however, appear to be getting a bit protective about the project: when the French Ambassador to Pakistan and his First Secretary visited the ruins of an ancient fort 25 miles south of Islamabad last week, they seemed to have wandered too close to where the gas centrifuge factory is being built. They were set upon by half a dozen unidentified men and beaten with...
Defense was originally written, as Aron concedes, to influence the 1978 French parliamentary election campaign, when there were fears that Eurocommunism might come to power as a major bloc within the Western alliance. Nevertheless, the English-language version has a lingering and vivid resonance. For example, the book poses a still pertinent question on the eve of the SALT II debate in the Senate: "Faced with an increasingly powerful and militant Soviet Union, do the Americans still have the same resolution they did 30 years...
...interview with TIME, Aron last week reflected on some of the changes in the world and in his views since publication of the first French edition of his book. "The defeat of the left in the 1978 elections removed many of the dangers we feared in France," he said. "But the crisis provoked by oil may be worse than I described in the book. I am also more pessimistic about the fact that the military superiority of the Soviet Union is less and less balanced by the force and the will of the U.S. At the same time, I feel...