Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argues that when it first proposed this protocol, it expected that the treaty would be signed in 1977, and so the protocol would lapse in 1980, a deadline that would not raise too many objections at the Pentagon. The U.S. has offered a compromise, June 30, 1981, but the matter remains unresolved. Unable to settle these and a few other issues, Vance and Gromyko had no choice but to recess the talks...
...most vociferous critics, would be given the power to veto new laws that were not in conformity with Muslim doctrine. The Shah, however, would retain command of his 280,000-man army, and this was a condition that few Shi'ites, or few other Iranians, for that matter, would now readily accept...
...matter how the Shah's latest strategy works out, the episodes in Iran last week again raised disturbing questions about the ability of the U.S. to predict developments in areas vital to its national interest and to devise effective policies for dealing with them. While the situation in Iran deteriorated, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his top aides were preoccupied with the Middle East peace talks and SALT negotiations with the Soviet Union. Filling the policy vacuum was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was almost unopposed in his recommendation that the U.S. must support the Shah without reservation...
Macabre as the garments seemed, the wonder was that there was any joking at all among the 30,000 U.S. citizens remaining in Iran. For most of them-Government employees, military advisers, businessmen, technicians, teachers-life has been a matter of steadily rising tension, isolation and harassment as the anti-Shah demonstrations have taken on an ever more anti-American tone. Most have endured it anxiously but stoically. Says a U.S. oil executive in a southern oil-producing region: "So many of us have sent our families away and are half packed that there aren't many more measures...
...might say that the essential subject matter of the International Style was the end of history. Its "functionalism," which correctly saw that mass production was destroying handcraft and, with it, ornament, was always colored by this millenarian fantasy. Johnson, whose relationship to Mies van der Rohe is complicated and Oedipal, argues that "Mies believed in the ultimate truth of architecture, especially of his architecture: that it was closer to the truth than anyone else's because it was simpler and could be learned. He felt it could be adapted on and on into the centuries, until architecture bloomed into...