Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter can eliminate the bureaucratic blunders that have hindered progress and canonized waste, we will truly have what you called "a new Washington...
...Russians are proud, sensitive, somewhat paranoid and cannot be pushed too far. The diplomat continues: "Is it not immoral to jettison disarmament?" This is not likely to happen. Carter seems determined not to let human rights protests interfere with arms control; for its part, Moscow seems to want progress on SALT, and needs trade and technology from the U.S. as well. But it is at least conceivable that if the U.S. pushed too hard on human rights, and if Moscow felt that things were moving out of control in Eastern Europe, a SALT agreement would be at least delayed, under...
...contradictory responses from Israeli leaders, in part because they have an eye on their May 17 national elections. Thus while Premier Yitzhak Rabin has expressed willingness to return to Geneva or go to "any other place" for genuine peace talks, his archrival, Defense Minister Shimon Peres, still insists that progress toward peace can be achieved by a series of limited Arab-Israeli accords...
...devise a formula allowing eventual P.L.O. participation. Before leaving, Vance endorsed the "legitimate interests of the Palestinian people." U.S. support of these interests almost certainly depends on the willingness of the P.L.O. to soften its stand toward Israel, for Vance has warned that "it is difficult to see how progress can be made" so long as the P.L.O. refuses formally to recognize Israel's right to exist...
...PANAMA, the line between Tradition and Progress is marked in the grass. Abruptly, as you reach Cristobol on the edge of the American Canal Zone, the jungle--steaming, ennervating, thick with history and bananas--gives way to the manicured lawns. And the golf fairways. "There are golf courses in plenty," Graham Greene writes with a piercing simplicity in a travelog from Panama, "The Country With Five Frontiers," that appears in the February 17 issue of The New York Review of Books...