Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Chinese Red Cross flood aid; last week it rolled out the red carpet for a sellout tour by the popular Communist Chinese Silver Star Cultural Troupe. With Rumania and other third-party countries acting as the middlemen, Malaysia's pragmatic new Premier Tun Abdul Razak has begun indirect negotiations with China, offering to open trade and diplomatic relations in return for Peking's promise not to support Malaysia's holdout guerrillas. He has already faced the wrenching decision forced by the "two Chinas" situation (TIME, Oct. 5): Malaysia is talking about closing down its consulate...
...young think the government has been too rigid in its approach toward peace than do other groups (14% v. 2% among those aged 40 to 59). But the young are also more insistent than the older Israelis on holding direct talks with the Arabs rather than the indirect discussions being conducted through United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. When it comes to surrendering territory captured from the Arabs during the 1967 Six-Day War, the 18-to-29s are most hawkish: 28% want to retain all territory or expand Israel's borders, v. 21% in the overall sample...
Israeli Arabs, since they are the minority, were merely asked if they felt discriminated against; 54% do. On the peace issue, the dominant Arab view is that indirect negotiations with Egypt and Jordan could succeed and that the Big Four could reach a Middle East settlement. Israeli Arabs are more inclined to return all or some occupied territory (88% v. 77% of the Israelis) and 49% would like to see the West Bank become a Palestinian state. Their principal domestic worry is one that ranks low among Israelis: 22% feel that taxes are too high and living costs too steep...
However, in a typically indirect statement, Newton erected an ideological line of defense for the Party, one which may become dominant in the Party line. Newton exhorted the black community to "judge us as revolutionaries not by our words but by our actions...
...Sweden is torn by strikes that have closed railways, law courts, government offices and schools. Finance Minister Gunnar Sträng has put the country on a deflationary diet of tighter credit, higher indirect taxes and restricted federal spending, and is taking a firm stand against union demands. Still, inflation is expected to stay about the same as last year's 8%. The anti-inflationary policies have hurt small wage earners and great companies alike. Twenty-three workingmen in the mountain village of Stora Blasjon, some without work for the past two years, went on a hunger strike last...