Word: prove
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...Moscow? The stopover in Bucharest may ultimately prove even more significant than the Asian swing. Rumania is a leading maverick in the Russians' European orbit. Nixon's visit, Washington believes, will symbolize the fact that the U.S. does not accept the "Brezhnev Doctrine," put forth by Moscow after the invasion of Czechoslovakia to justify Soviet intervention in any independent Communist state within its sphere...
Close Watch. Still, though they may not have observed protocol-or in some cases the Constitution-it is not so easy to contend that the Chief Executives were always wrong. In the summer of 1940, for instance, President Roosevelt had good reason to believe that American destroyers might prove decisive in defeating a German invasion of Britain; a British defeat would have brought the U.S. into the gravest peril. Yet Congress probably would not have approved the transaction for weeks or months, if at all. Congress is oftentimes hostage to parochial interests, while the President has the national constituency...
...Last week a fresh voice spoke from Paris. It was that of Premier Jacques Chaban-Del-mas. Reflecting the new policy of President Georges Pompidou, Chaban-Del-mas declared: "We are ready to go as fast and as far in the quest of European unification as our partners." To prove France's change of heart, the Premier held out the promise of a European summit. "France is ready to participate in a meeting of the chiefs of state or chiefs of government of the six nations of the community," he said...
...some reason, the year following an Olympiad is usually one for track's record books. Olympic medal winners seem to work extra hard to prove that their victories were no flukes; the losers muster extra energy to prove that their defeats were. Thus, in 1961, after the Rome games, no fewer than eleven major world marks were shattered. In 1965, after Tokyo, another 14 fell...
...MILITANT action by students hit campuses from Harvard to Berkeley this spring, harried college administrators, looking over their shoulders to Capitol Hill, were worried that the "student unrest" would prove to be a spur for repressive legislation--against students, and perhaps indirectly, against the universities themselves. While the final legislative results are not in, it does appear, however, that the Congressional reaction to campus commotion has thus far been surprisingly mild...