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With that dramatic call to action, former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt this week presents his long-awaited report on the Gordian problem of relations between rich and poor nations. With a barrage of chilling statistics and often eloquent prose, the 1971 Nobel Peace prizewinner proposes a summit of some 25 world leaders to focus on "mutual interests in the field of peace, justice and jobs." While charging that the "air is thick with alibis for inaction," he says that nothing less than a summit will concentrate world attention on the "mortal dangers threatening our children and grandchildren...
Untying the Gordian Knot...
Whether Carter will prevail in the end is uncertain, but he can count on a number of strong allies, including Frank Church, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Praising Carter for having "cut the Gordian knot," Church declared: "His decision to recognize China finally brings American policy into line with Asian realities." Many Senators brushed aside as unimportant Carter's failure to consult them. Said Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie: "We have been committed to normalization for six years, and everyone in Congress must have been aware that this dialogue was going on." Among other supporters of Carter...
...keep it at 77-all; Fine arched in a jumper he had waiting in cold storage in Melrose Park, Pa. to make it 79-up with 4:04 left to play; and Hooft tied it with a pair from the line with 3:00 showing. Booker finally cut the Gordian Knot when he netted those fateful free throws to give Harvard an 85-83 lead, its first of the half...
...that has followed from it, suggests again the ingenuity with which some men and women have approached the seemingly insoluble problem, the historical impossibility. Old impregnable conundrums usually fall to the simplest, most elegant assaults. Alexander's sword at one stroke solved all the mystification of the Gordian knot. Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants-military genius riding through the snow upon absurdity. Gandhi defeated the British raj with a contradiction: nonviolent resistance. In 1955 a weary black woman in Montgomery. Ala., Rosa Parks, refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man; at that instant...