Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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News events that become cover stories sometimes do not stop evolving by Friday. Thus weekend work is a regular part of Nation's responsibilities. Friedrich, however, also undertakes weekend labors that do not involve the news. His seventh book, Clover, a biography of Henry Adams' wife, will be published next month by Simon & Schuster. Another nonfiction work, about the idea of the end of the world, is 250 pages under...
...always been interested in disasters and crises," says Friedrich of his latest project, an interest that makes him especially well suited to his Nation duties...
...rich really don't care whether or not America remains democratic or goes totalitarian. What support there is for the New Right comes from white- and blue-collar middle-income Americans who are fed up with federal regulation of their lives and the sellout of our nation by the liberal machine...
...least ten years ago that U.S. intelligence first got an inkling that a Soviet combat unit might possibly be in Cuba. But the nation was embroiled in the Viet Nam War, and intelligence was largely focused on Southeast Asia; Cuba had low priority. After the war, intelligence operations were reassigned both in the field and in Washington, where it takes many people and much equipment to sort out incoming information. Cuba watching was increased, but not significantly. Even so, evidence emerged confirming the presence of a mysteriously active Soviet headquarters...
...President John F. Kennedy told a stunned nation that he was ordering a naval "quarantine" of Cuba because the U.S. had just acquired proof that there were Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles on the island. In addition, he said, sites were being built for intermediate-range ballistic missiles capable of striking at targets in much of North America. Not only were sites for the missiles under construction, he charged, but the assembly of Soviet jet bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons was well under...