Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China and the U.S. did not want the sticky question of the status of Tibet to cloud developing Sino-American relations. In this first trip to America, the Dalai Lama said he came to "spread compassion, to teach, and to learn," and spoke in terms of humanity in general, rather than Tibet in particular...
Depending on whom you believe, business in the Square will either be fatally hurt or boosted by the Carpenter complex. James A. Argeros general manager of the Harvard Cooperative Society, says "a substantial amount of retail space would adversely affect our business...
Secondly, Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East. Attacks designed to disparage Israel are ultimately aimed at democracy in general and the United States in particular...
Connally's appeasement of the Arabs (he has already received campaign contributions from Arab supporters) and his anti-Israel position ignore all of these considerations. His politics could be popular among Republicans and push him through the primaries. But he should beware that they could backfire in a general election, when Jews--absent from the Republican primaries--will back the Democratic candidate. Connally has tossed away any possibility for Jewish support, a factor that was crucial to the Republicans' victory in the presidential race of 1972, when many Jews voted conservatively...
Chauvinists in the Corps of Cadets always maintained that it would be a cold day before West Point bestowed its prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award on a woman. Well it snowed, in early October on the Plain last week, and there stood Clare Boothe Luce, 76, accepting that award from General Andrew Goodpaster for her accomplishments in politics, diplomacy and the arts. "I suspect," said Luce, "that the fact that this is the first year that there are women in all four classes [at the Point] is not unrelated to my good fortune." Luce accepted an engraved saber from ranking cadet...