Word: protractedness
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Unless a negotiated peace is arranged, the prospect is for an indefinite U.S. air presence in Indochina, involving as many as 30,000 men and costing up to $1 billion a year (current annual cost of the war: $6 billion). The irony is that the U.S., having extricated itself from...
Barzel drastically understates the ominous potential for diplomatic damage. If the treaties go, so will the Berlin agreement: that could lead to resumed East German harassment of traffic between West Germany and West Berlin and, at worst, could bring on another Berlin crisis. There would be an immediate break in...
Perhaps the most conspicuously unusual aspect of Gertrud is its leisurely and deliberate pace. The film tells, in a series of protracted scenes flowing slowly from one to the next, the story of Gertrud who leaves her husband Gustav because his love for her is not, she says, complete enough...
The Devaluation Rally. That resistance began to erode before the Rome meeting. Foreign Policy Adviser Henry Kissinger warned Nixon that the protracted financial impasse would hurt U.S. political relations with important allies. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns returned from a Wall Street visit last month with word that U.S. financial...
"I'm certainly not going to get into a period of protracted vegetation," Cousins told TIME'S Roger Williams. "At the moment, I'm thinking very hard about communications as a carrier of ideas, especially with respect to peace and the entire question of world law. Whatever...