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...newsman's question: Was President Nixon's May 22 summit visit to Moscow still on? "We never had any doubts about it. I don't know why you asked." There were ritual denunciations of the U.S. from Moscow and Peking. But while the language was harsh, no specific action was threatened. At week's end Hanoi's negotiators in Paris even seemed willing to talk peace some more, although still on their own restrictive terms...
...self-determination of all Germans, including those in East Germany. In a gesture aimed at helping the passage of the treaties, Moscow's ambassador in Bonn, Valentin Falin, passed the word that the Soviets would "take note" of such a declaration-provided the language was not too harsh...
...Italians la dolce vita has turned as harsh and unpleasant as the unseasonably cold and wet Roman spring. The economic miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment stands at 1,167,000, or 6.1% of the working force. Housing is so limited that every city has its shack dwellers-while Italy has a surplus of empty luxury apartments. Hospitals are desperately overcrowded; schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students...
...harsh landscape of Spain and the poverty of its people changed all that. Ten years before the Civil War, the country seemed proud, destitute and challenging. "There was a sense of the immediate and finite, so much more satisfying than the infinite, which had really starved me. Here one began to see exactly." Now his walking tours were taken with less naive goals. His first book, Marching Spain, appeared and the mental rearrangement begun beneath the trees in Paris was complete...
Several councillors greeted the reading of the measure with harsh words. "That's a disgrace to your office," said Councillor Walter J. Sullivan. "I wish you'd withdraw...