Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration has spent all fall--not to mention much of last spring--lobbying with educators and legislators to preserve the sanctity of its confidential files. Surely it can devote equal time to a more important issue--ensuring that progress toward a fully integrated society is not halted in midstride...
President Bok's reaction to Amherst's announcement would be funnier if easy-going acceptance of sexual discrimination didn't have such serious consequences. "Harvard's progress toward merger or toward equality" can't be measured by Harvard's sex ratio, Bok said, without attempting to suggest a more appropriate measure...
...priority item on the agenda for his 3½ days of talks with Kremlin leaders was the sensitive issue of strategic arms control. Disappointingly little progress has been made since the first round of SALT negotiations ended in 1972. At that time, a treaty was signed on limitation of defensive missile systems (ABM'S), but an interim agreement on the deployment of offensive nuclear arms extends only to 1977. Unless some significant breakthrough can be made soon, the idyl of American-Soviet détente may be lost in the nightmarish shuffle of an accelerated arms race. Well aware...
Untimely Leaks. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev had requested an early introductory meeting to establish personal contact with President Ford. As a prerequisite for such a meeting, Kissinger was expected to press for assurances of progress on the arms question. Late last week Moscow and Washington jointly announced that the two leaders will hold a "working meeting" near the Soviet Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on November 23 and 24 after the President's visits to Japan and South Korea...
Instead, Papadopoulos found himself under arrest, with orders to pack a small bag-fast. At a police station, the charges were spelled out: "plotting to undermine the peaceful progress" of the elections and "developing subversive activities." Papadopoulos also faces charges that he was "morally responsible for the premeditated murder" of 34 Greeks by soldiers during demonstrations last November, a crime that carries the death penalty. Meanwhile, Papadopoulos' financial dealings during his years in power are being probed. His wife Despina is under investigation for receiving money from KYP, the Greek intelligence agency, without performing any known service...