Word: longer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessary to wait some months longer to see if Khomeini can be led to understand that he can do nothing...
...hearings because the price of the treaty is almost certain to be a U.S. arms buildup. This was not only Kissinger's message, but that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and others. Indeed, the main issue no longer appears to be whether SALT II will pass, although that is not yet certain; instead, it is what kind of measures will accompany the treaty to strengthen the nation's defenses and send the right signals to the Kremlin and America's allies...
...attack by Viet Nam had an enormously unsettling impact on all of the other countries of Southeast Asia. Therefore it affected our own longer-term interests. Such behavior is incompatible with a U.S.-Soviet relationship of genuine coexistence...
...mining industry. In southern Zambia, farming has been disrupted by guerrilla warfare. In the Gwembe Valley, crops are rotting in local cooperative stores because nobody wants to collect them. Most of the preindependence white farmers have left Zambia, and agricultural output has dropped accordingly. Zambia's farmers no longer grow tobacco, once a flourishing crop, nor do they produce as much corn as the country needs...
...this weekend's press opening, Kenneth Haigh's Prospero seemed imbued with a weariness that I don't think either he or the director intended. Haigh's load this summer is enough to tire anyone: when he is not doing Prospero, he is playing either Brutus (an even longer role) or Malvolio. At any rate, his Prospero is not yet a sustained piece of work...