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...view of the world that is struggling to be born. "If détente is in limbo," asked one of the President's men last week, "what is going to take its place?" "We are forging a new method of response to the Soviets," suggested another key Carter planner. "Until now, responses have been mostly military. This will be much more political, cultural and economic...
...designed to be rhapsodized by Leni Riefenstahl, the epic cinematic poet of Nazism. An array of swastikas lined the Reichs-sportfeld in the vast, mystic excess of the genre; Hitler jugend glowed in the golden well-being of their Aryamsm. At the nighttime finale, reported The New Yorkers Janet Planner "a giant chorus sang Schiller's words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; overhead, 17 searchlights from far outside the arena made a lofty birdcage of streaming light beams. Imagine if television had been there to catch the spectacle in color and beam it by satellite to a world...
During a thirteen-year period (1966-78). I spent a cumulative nine years in former French Africa as a planner and manager of many development projects, employed by both public and private organizations. In its relatively rigid economic approach to the problems of development, HIID has been, for the past few years, viewed by many of my colleagues and myself as unfortunately disappointing in its contribution to professional thinking while understanding and conceptions elsewhere expanded regarding what are the critical components of the development process--only some of which are economic...
...before Christmas Soviet forces were detected massing for a possible Afghanistan invasion, Ambassador Watson delivered several warnings to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. They were ignored until Christmas Eve, when Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Maltsev coolly informed Watson that the invasion was about to begin. Said a senior U.S. planner: "There wasn't anything we could have said at that point that would have deflected them...
...angular, thin-lipped economic planner from the southern Ukraine, Tikhonov is considered by Kremlinologists to be a loyal follower of President Leonid Brezhnev, 72, and a probable successor to ailing Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 75. Rumored to have suffered a heart attack, Kosygin has not been seen in public since mid-October, and Tikhonov has been carrying out his official duties...