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...Grave Consequence. If Pakistan's threats of war provided the impetus for India's action, Richard Nixon's sudden decision to visit Peking continued to worry the Russians. One sign of nervousness: four major articles on China appeared in the Soviet press last week alone. The most important one, titled "Questions Calling for a Practical Answer," was written by Georgy Arbatov, director of Moscow's U.S.A. Research Institute and widely regarded as the Kremlin's foremost Americanologist. It described the Nixon trip as "a matter of grave consequence for the Soviet people, for world socialism...
...Peking's door to Richard Nixon both before and during his own trip to Peking in June. With 600,000 Russian troops stationed along China's borders and no sign of an end to the Sino-Soviet feud, Moscow considers Ceauşescu's conduct a grave breach of Socialist solidarity...
...newscasts begin with casualty lists; only 15 soldiers were killed by enemy action during the past year, by guerrilla mines or bullets. No longer do old friends meet regularly at funerals. At one funeral a young man in uniform murmured, "Who knows? I may be buried in the next grave." About a week later...
...lifts up his countenance to this united and lonely pleading of men in their shrouds, men beyond the grave, of a community of souls-God who loves man both before and after he has sinned, God whom man, in his need, may challenge, asking why he has forsaken him . . . And so man to whom the divine countenance is lifted bursts out into the exultant profession: The Lord is God': this God of Love, he alone is God! . . . Everything earthly lies so far behind the transport of eternity in this confession that it is difficult to imagine that...
...eagerly imposed martial law. In his first speech as President, Yahya delighted his military sponsors by declaring that the country was at "the edge of an abyss." What really bothered the generals was that the country might be on the verge of a return to genuine civilian rule, posing grave dangers to the army's power and perks...