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Even if talks are resumed, U.S. officials do not expect any immediate progress. For one thing, the Chinese Communists demand, as a precondition for even the smallest agreement, that the U.S. abandon the Nationalist government on Taiwan. Also, few Westerners comprehend how far Mao's China will go to protect its ideological purity. In the minds of Chinese leaders, cultural exchanges and the arrival of Western journalists would only serve to sully the haven of unadulterated Communism. In fact, the most that the U.S. could hope for in the near future would be an agreement to hold regular discussions...
While Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev whispered in the gallery behind the rostrum, Chief Soviet Planner Nikolai Baibakov manfully defended the progress of the current 1965-70 five-year plan. He conceded that next year there would be only a modest wage increase of 3% for factory and office workers and 4.6% for collective farmers. Nevertheless, Baibakov boasted that in comparison with 15 years ago, "every 100 families in 1970 will have 71 radios as against 61, 52 washing machines as against 21, and 32 refrigerators instead of only eleven." His list, however, could not mask...
Precisely, says Moltmann. What makes man's future so full of promise is not the modernist's idea of upward, evolutionary progress inherent in man but, quite simply, Christ's death and Resurrection. No matter whether the Resurrection is verifiable as a historical event; that "something" happened to give early Christians their immense hope is evidence enough. In addition, argues Moltmann, while the Resurrection may be "the sign of future hope," the cross itself-through Christ's sacrifice-means "hope to the-hopeless...
After eight weeks, the Soviet-Chinese border talks in Peking appear to have made no progress. The reason for the deadlock may well be that the Soviets refuse to withdraw their troops from disputed areas of the 4,500-mile border until the Chinese quit insisting on a complete Soviet renunciation of the czarist treaties that ceded vast areas of China to Russia...
...that a law should be obeyed, even if it may be unconstitutional, until a few citizens test the issue in the courts. Among the six commissioners who disagreed was Patricia Roberts Harris,* former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. Mrs. Harris, a Negro, pointed out that blacks would have made little progress if they had relied on lawful tactics alone. "A nation whose history enshrines the civil disobedience of the Boston Tea Party," she said, "cannot fail to recognize at least the symbolic merit of demonstrated hostility to unjust laws...