Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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All this seems unhappily reminiscent not only of the Dark Ages but of what Sir Harold Nicolson called the "wolflike habits" of the Italian Renaissance, when Niccolo Machiavelli lectured Medici princes on the judicious use of power and perfidy. In those days, diplomats were regarded as no better than spies...
The new incidents of old-fashioned nastiness have several intriguing elements in common. For one thing, they generally involve nations that have no mutual diplomatic relations or, if such links exist, they tend to be severely frazzled. For another, the favorite object of attack almost always involves vehicles-airliners, autos...
Unhappily, violence in international relations is burgeoning both in frequency and scope. Hannah Arendt warns that "the amount of violence at the disposal of a given country may no longer be a reliable indication of that country's strength or a reliable guarantee against destruction by a substantially smaller...
DESPITE the Government's anti-inflation campaign-which many employers would like to take to heart by holding down salaries-everybody seems to be earning more and more these days. Congress recently doubled the U.S. President's salary to $200,000, while boosting the pay of its own...
The price of gold in Paris last week shot to well over $46 per oz., the highest in two decades. That upsurge reflected, more than anything, smoldering fears about the future of the franc. The spark that started the rise, however, was President Nixon's call two weeks ago...