Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those sharp setbacks came as Nixon seemed to be making considerable progress in reversing his disastrous slide in public esteem, and indeed White House aides are eagerly awaiting the next round of opinion polls measuring his standing after the televised Florida press conference. His scrappy performances had won wide praise from his audiences. One somewhat bizarre episode after the conference, in which he seemed to have playfully slapped a friendly bystander (see THE PRESS), hardly distracted from this. Though Nixon kept promising more evidence of innocence rather than providing it after he had met with the Governors, Oregon...
...country where Colonists obeyed the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth. In the following century came the boisterous faith in expansion-the push westward, the promise of the industrial revolution and, always, the unrestricted faith in the marketplace. The creative intellect became intoxicated with progress. Henry Adams squinted and foresaw a new American, "the child of incalculable coal power, chemical power, electrical power and radiating energy ... a sort of God compared with any former creature of nature...
Apparently the negotiators were making progress. General Yariv proposed a compromise formula that could lead to a settlement. Under the plan, Israel would withdraw its forces from the west bank entirely, thereby freeing the Egyptian Third Army to retreat to the west bank of the canal. The Egyptians would be permitted to retain a limited force on the east bank, and the Israelis would pull back about six miles eastward into the Sinai. U.N. troops would take up positions between the two sides; Egypt would reopen the Suez Canal, and Israeli shipping would receive free passage through the canal...
Whether the formula would prove to be acceptable to the Egyptians remained to be seen. But certainly Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was under pressure to achieve some quick progress in his negotiations with the Israelis. This week he is scheduled to meet with other Arab leaders in Algiers, and he will be obliged to prove to his more militant brethren that his policy of moderation, negotiation and trust in Kissinger is paying dividends. So far two Arab states-Libya and Iraq -have said that they will not attend the meeting; both oppose negotiations with the Israelis. Even Syria, Egypt...
...order to sustain the diplomatic momentum created by the war. The U.S. is also anxious to get the meeting started, so that it can argue to the Arab oil-producing nations that they might just as well step up the flow of oil while the conference is in progress...