Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time of the Powers-Abel exchange, I have personal knowledge of that episode, which is mentioned in your story on the recent prisoner-swapping triple play...
...been endorsed by Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger. Case is opposed in the G.O.P. primary by Jeffrey Bell, a former aide to Ronald Reagan. Bell warns against "bracket creep" (putting taxpayers in a higher income tax bracket because of inflation) and backs a House bill calling for a 30% general cut in income tax rates. At the moment, Bradley is a slight favorite over Leone, and Case a heavy favorite not only next week but in November as well...
Within the Administration, there is general agreement on what the Cubans are up to: Castro, always the ideologue, is exporting revolution to win friends and thumb his nose at the U.S. But there are two importantly different schools of thought as to what the Russians are up to. One view is that the Soviets are, as usual, merely reacting to targets of opportunity; helping the Katangese rebels, for instance, gives them a chance for some low-cost, low-risk adventurism, with possibly big rewards. This is basically Vance's view, although he admits to some uncertainty about Moscow's ultimate...
...Estaing of France, Premier Thorbjörn Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and deadlier weapons...
...chief promoters of the conference were the unaligned nations of the Third World, who feel most threatened by the bulging arsenals of not only the superpowers but also smaller regional powers. Keynoting their cause was General Assembly President Lazar Mojsov of Yugoslavia, who castigated the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. as the "chief actors" in the arms race and called for the huge sums spent on weapons development to be channeled into alleviating poverty and exploring new sources of energy. To expect any such sweeping progress toward the centuries-old goal of disarmament was obviously unrealistic, and one West German Foreign...