Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Embassy for more discussions, morning and afternoon, about arms and the international situation, including China, the Middle East and southern Africa. Again they spoke from prepared notes. In fact, the only scheduled opportunity for a prolonged private exchange between them was a 60-min. meeting, with only two interpreters present, on Monday morning...
...poorer lands. But lately, changes among Third World members have divided the once harmonious group into a company of often competing soloists. The divisions were apparent in Manila at the fifth meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD v), the forum where the developing countries present their complaints to the wealthier nations. After a month of sometimes heated dialogue, the conference ended last week in division, indecision and frustration. TIME'S Hong Kong Correspondent Ross H. Munro reports...
Largely at the urging of a lay member, Rose Kushner, herself a breast cancer victim, the panel also recommended another reform. At present, most suspected breast cancer patients sign a paper upon admission to hospitals giving the surgeon blanket authority to undertake whatever treatment is deemed necessary, even if the initial intention is to do only a biopsy-taking a tissue sample from the breast to see if any cells are cancerous. To their great distress, many women have found upon awakening that the surgeon has taken a breast as well as the sample. Kushner persuaded the largely male panel...
...what troubles the newspaper editors came out clearly in a conference of journalists, lawyers and scientists assembled in mid-April by the Alicia Patterson Foundation to discuss the case. Several top scientists present agreed that the Progressive article could help such nations as Taiwan, South Africa, South Korea and Argentina to develop a bomb more quickly. No editor at the conference said he would have printed the article. Nor were editors impressed by Editor Erwin Knoll's stated motive to attack secrecy as unworkable and thus somehow to frustrate the nuclear arms race. Couldn't the point...
...speech there may hint at squabbles and realignments, and while Brezhnev's possible heir, Andrei Kirilenko, may seem to be up one week and down the next, there is little doubt that whoever eventually succeeds Brezhnev will be a Brezhnevite, drawn from the ranks of the present inner circle. Meanwhile, it is easier and safer for his colleagues to keep renewing Brezhnev's own contract than to replace...