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...West. Notes a U.S. analyst involved in the Vienna talks: "We and the Soviets disagree thoroughly on manpower data. Until we get a data base agreement, there's no breakthrough." Moscow's refusal to budge on the data question would therefore make the "concession" on parity meaningless. But unless the Soviets convincingly demonstrate, on MBFR or some other key issue, their commitment to détente, Washington might come reluctantly to the conclusion that the Russians are not yet ready for a cycle of sweetness and light in East-West relations...
...enduring problem was that of a continent unable to govern its own affairs. As the Zambia Daily Mail observed, "The almost casual ease with which European powers can fly into an African country and airlift its nationals or occupy whole towns is making the very concept of African independence meaningless...
...that point, any runs on Harvard's part would have been almost meaningless. Sloppy fielding by the Crimson yielded six runs to St. John's in the sixth and seventh...
What about Jaws, which I found cinematically dazzling? "Junk," he says. "A stupid story--the techinique is meaningless." Its deficiencies, he says, show up clearly when compared to Hitchcok's Psycho.. "There was a very deep psychological justification for the horror in this film," he says. "In the shower sequence, Hitchcock created a metaphor for human fear. He also conveyed cinematically the theme of the inability to relate to another person...
...divestiture of stocks in banks lending money directly to the minority government of South Africa. The few socially responsible suggestions that emerged from the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility's six-month study were completely diregarded, lending sad credence to the notion that the whole drawn-out process was meaningless from the start...