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...greater degree than in most other countries, Soviet foreign policy aims arise from domestic needs. One reason for Nikita Khrushchev's fall from power was his boundless, and groundless, belief in the Soviet ability to overtake the U.S. economically. By contrast, Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other party leaders are aware that their country is falling ever farther behind the West in technology. The Soviet leaders realize that they need Western technology and long-term credit to help overcome their country's backwardness and to open up the rich petroleum and other mineral deposits in Siberia. Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Why the Russians Do What They Do | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...will not accuse the University in general or Mr. Reardon in particular of racism in this matter. To do so would be entirely premature and groundless. I merely wish to raise a valid question about a matter of admissions policy that could lead to misunderstanding and animosity in the future. Christopher H. Foreman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACK ADMISSIONS | 11/3/1971 | See Source »

...times, the new film criticism seems to wallow in groundless theorizing. One succinct and complete definition of a Godardian-Marxist viewpoint was voiced by Jim Crawford '71 in his review of Sontag's Duet for Cannibals...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Politics and Films for Beginners | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...claims that we reported that he had charged a certain professor. We did not, and he knows it. Pasztor now states that he was not the complainant. But we did not report that he was a complainant against a named Faculty member; if that is his allegation, it is groundless. We reported what he told Thomas. We stand by that report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pasztor's Letter | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...save [Special Consultant to the President] Len Garment, to see how dreadfully potent a charge this was against you. The charge was being made that your Administration was carrying out a systematic plan of political murder designed to wipe out a political party. The charge was groundless, which I could soon enough establish to my own satisfaction. But what was the response of the Justice Department? In effect, 'No comment.' And at the lower levels, a series of hysterical (two meanings intended) statements that this band of six or seven hundred high school dropouts, a few ex-cons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Moynihan Writes Again | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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