Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected that such pressure would be exerted immediately. Last week, to the contrary, there were some superficial indications of progress that could be attributed at least partly to the accord. Bonn and Warsaw reached an interim agreement, for instance, providing for the repatriation of some 125,000 ethnic Germans (out of a total of 280,000) from Poland to West Germany. Cost to Bonn: almost $1 billion in credits and pensions. In addition, the conversations at Helsinki between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German Communist Boss Erich Honecker were said to have led to some progress...
Street Art. Artists are on exhslibit this month. The ICA sponsored "Works in Progress" consists of ten artists at work along the Freedom Trail. The results are not the cliches you'd expect--there's no-one in Revolutionary War dress. Instead there are prominent local artists like Carpenter Center animator, Mary Beams. She is known for her dancing penis animations but her subject at the North End Mail is an antique film projector. "Works in Progress" is billed as a chance for the public to see some of Boston's "hidden resources." The people who hang...
Memorable Moments. The most important meetings of the conference were unquestionably the private ones between Ford and Brezhnev. The U.S. was anxious for a sign of some momentum toward a SALT II agreement and perhaps some progress in the currently deadlocked Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks, whose aim is to reduce military forces in Central Europe. Indeed, the U.S. believes some sort of headway is necessary before a Ford-Brezhnev summit can take place in Washington this fall. At their first meeting, over a mahogany table at the U.S. embassy, the two leaders talked for two hours and professed...
During the second meeting, they discussed SALT and MBFR in greater detail. Although both Ford and Brezhnev made pro forma statements that some limited progress had been achieved, the two sides adjourned without any substantive compromise...
Things, however, are not always what they seem. This new army of liberal democrats took office (except for the senator from New Hampshire, who remains to be seated) more than six mouths ago, but nothing much has happened. There has been precious little progress made against racism, military lunacy, social injustice, perennial pollution, executive government, and sexism; and only a false veneer of success on the newly-important economic front. And no one knows what to do about any one of them. Ford smiles a lot and vetoes a lot, but he is not now, and never will be capable...