Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such measures would bolster Bonn's police powers-a development that also worries many Germans in view of their country's Nazi past. But if the mood of the country in the wake of the Schleyer kidnaping is any guide, most Germans today feel that the dangers of increased terrorism are far greater than the risk of democratically elected governments in Bonn misusing increased powers...
...assured very little. The decision on the twelve-month rule is nonbinding; the T.U.C. has no power to prevent an individual union from breaching it. Workers on the factory floor hold the key to any policy of restraint by individual unions, and just now they are in a rebellious mood. After the congress, some union leaders hinted that they were fully prepared to flout the twelve-month rule; Arthur Scargill, Communist leader of the Yorkshire miners, said, "This decision makes no difference to the miners' wage claim." They want a pay increase on Nov. 1, rather than in March...
...Vienna. They have now been postponed until the end of the month, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will sit down with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Washington and later in New York. Vance, just back from his none-too-fruitful meetings in China, was in no mood to rush off to another exhausting, frustrating round of negotiations. The Administration wants congressional backing to extend the expiration date of SALT I beyond Oct. 3, keeping alive what Rusk calls "history's longest permanent floating crap game...
...Shabani (pop. 1,900 whites, 14,000 blacks) stretches the Belingwe Tribal Trust Land, a reserve inhabited by 140,000 blacks, where the guerrilla presence is most deeply felt. On election day last week, TIME's Xan Smiley visited Belingwe and filed this report on its troubled mood...
Despite the sameness of the scene, there's another difference in this year's freshmen, one that can only be perceived by talking to them. It is the continuation of a trend that started several years ago, part of the incredibly overwritten "new mood on campus," which is now the old mood. It is reflected in the rampant pre-professionalism (that 80 per cent figure is the highest ever) and an increasing depoliticization. This is not just a move away from leftism--although that, too, is evident--but a move away from all political interest or conviction. Of course...