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Harris called his plea for a "return to idealism as the basis of foreign policy" as the "most radical" part of his campaign...
...rebel leaders when other inmates pointed out how hopeless it was. Throughout the uprising, in fact, the inmates never quite lived up to their fierce rhetoric, although their threats to kill the hostages sounded credible enough. Underlying the bullying tone of their demands was an unmistakably genuine plea that even if they were convicted criminals, all they wanted was to be treated like human beings. "We are men," said the inmate statement. "We are not beasts, and do not intend to be beaten or driven. What has happened here is but the sound before the fury of those oppressed...
...temperance. Toddy is a potent and pungent Indian drink fermented from palm sap, traditionally collected by tappers who scamper daily to treetops to retrieve earthenware pots filled with sap tapped from the trees. But toddy tapping became a near-forgotten craft after 1948, when Tamil Nadu responded to a plea by Mohandas Gandhi to save Indians-and their pay envelopes -from toddy...
...European security treaty. Arbatov reached a semipessimistic conclusion suggesting that "events will develop in another direction," with U.S. policy unchanged on everything except China. All this seemed to place too much of the burden of accommodation on the U.S. Nevertheless, the article seemed in some ways to constitute a plea for U.S.-Soviet cooperation and a warning against an anti-Soviet coalition between Washington and Peking...
...Austin busing question; the HEW plan had some technical weaknesses. Still, Richardson thought he had persuaded Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell to carry out the busing decision (TIME, Aug. 9). He was informed of the President's move at the last minute, and carried no personal plea or protest to Nixon...