Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yugoslavs pressed the Soviet leader for a clear-cut renunciation of the Brezhnev doctrine and reaffirmation of the Belgrade and Moscow declarations of the mid-'50s. These had ended the Stalinist campaigns against Yugoslavia by proclaiming the right of all Communist countries to find their own path to Marxism. Brezhnev gave his hosts some satisfaction by seeming to dismiss "the doctrine of limited sovereignty" as a "fabrication" by the West and pledging his own support of the old declarations. However, Brezhnev's assurances were semantically slippery. He said that the Belgrade and Moscow declarations had to be understood...
Overconfidence is the only hurdle in the Crimson's path. Several Ivy squads have the potential to stay with Harvard for two or three periods. None, on paper, should beat it. First...
...shake off your lethargy," Kennedy said, imploring young voters to "take a path (voting) that may seem prosaic, but is nevertheless the path to power and progress...
...OVERSEERS' COMMITTEE A GOOD IDEA? Once the negotiation path is entered, an outside mediator trusted by both convicts and officers can be useful. But if there is a committee of mediation, it must be small to be effective, and it cannot be fractious. There were far too many Attica observers, and they were sharply divided in ideology. Rockefeller, who had complained at first about the role of "outside revolutionaries" in the uprising, was asked why he later admitted a potential troublemaker like Seale to the bargaining. "Because the prisoners wanted him," he replied...
Burger rose impassively to deliver a sober and reflective speech. Where Ross had spoken of "human beings" locked in prisons, the Chief Justice-without specific reference to Attica-described convicts as the "delinquents and misfits" of society. He cautioned the students that law was not the path to social reform, although he admitted to being intrigued by the "alluring prospect that our world can be changed in the courts" rather than by legislators. It was a moderate enough speech by a man who cares deeply about prison reform, but the students were not in a frame of mind for moderation...