Word: minorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin met twice in Washington last week. Their urgency was a shared one; the responses to Washington from Moscow had rarely come faster. Vance and Dobrynin were expected to settle the last issue this week. It was a minor loophole in the proposed freeze on the number of warheads permitted on each missile. Vance and Dobrynin then were expected to plunge immediately into negotiating the time and place for the Carter-Brezhnev summit-probably in June at a neutral capital in Europe, such as Geneva, Stockholm or Vienna...
...monk." Sir Keith readily admits the failings that have made him a bogeyman to the left. "I know I have a first-class mind," he once said, "but I have no political judgment whatsoever." Thus, despite his powerful influence on Thatcher, he was given the relatively minor Cabinet post of Minister for Industry...
...while deploring the President and Fellows' sluggishness on this issue, it is important not to ignore their arrogant assurances that whatever minor steps they take are not in response to student or faculty efforts to educate them on these issues...
...Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, Shawcross does not minimize the difficulties that confronted the Nixon and Ford Administrations in Indochina. But he sharply criticizes the U.S. view that Cambodia was a minor adjunct to the Viet Nam War and that the strategy of the larger war justified spreading the fighting into a neutral land. President Nixon expressed that view when he said in December of 1970: "The Cambodians . . . are tying down 40,000 North Vietnamese regulars. If those North Vietnamese weren't in Cambodia, they'd be over [in Viet Nam] killing Americans...
...another uncertainty is the potential success or failure of the minor parties. This year a record 2,571 candidates are running for 635 seats in the House of Commons. Many of the campaigners represent 100 or so fringe organizations of the right or left that have not the remotest chance of winning. Among them: the Fancy Dress Party, the Dog Lovers' Party,* the Ecology Party and Actress Vanessa Redgrave's Workers' Revolutionary Party. Among the more serious minor parties, the Scottish Nationalists figure to lose nearly all of their eleven parliamentary seats, thanks to the failure...