Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harsh Measures. Last month India announced that it would exchange ambassadors with China for the first time in 14 years, and made significant progress in normalizing its relations with Pakistan-all of which will inevitably reduce New Delhi's reliance upon the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, both nations still have important reasons for maintaining the special relationship that has existed since the signing of a 20-year friendship treaty in 1971, and the Soviets are obviously relieved that Mrs. Gandhi has finally made her long-postponed visit...
...Base. London apparently agreed to such harsh terms mainly because it was under pressure from the U.S. and Norway, which feared that Iceland would make good on its threat to quit NATO if the 200-mile zone was not respected. That could have denied the alliance the key Keflavik base from which Soviet surface and submarine naval activity has been monitored. London now hopes that when the new treaty expires in six months, the Common Market, as a bloc, will negotiate new terms with Iceland that will enable Britain to increase its harvest of Icelandic...
...distinguished American lawyers gained power of attorney for the relatives in Israel of 19 Jews serving sentences at various labor camps within the Soviet Union. The hope was that the Soviets would respect their own laws enough for cogent arguments by foreign colleagues to induce them to reconsider the harsh sentences meted out to the 19 Jewish prisoners. The U.S. lawyers first studied Soviet law. For months they prepared defense briefs, excerpts of which form an appendix to the book, detailing how, in each of the cases, convictions had been obtained in flagrant violation of the Soviets' own statutes...
...members of the corps, and the longer a cadet stays at West Point, the more tolerant he tends to become of wrongdoing. Some cadets felt that maintaining a friendship is more important than reporting a fellow student and that the penalty of banishment from West Point was too harsh for minor offenses...
Part of the admittedly partisan fun here is observing just how harsh a fictional portrait of his old boss Ehrlichman permits himself. Ehrlichman's Monckton is capable of deep concentration but prey to near collapse from sporadic bouts of depression and drink. He regularly invokes national security as a cover for dirty politics and runs on about "those fags at State." Once in office he sets the plumbers in motion...