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...Harvard-Radcliffe student ration was not specifically discussed and will stay approximately the same...
...extend recognition to Peking. He became the first Western statesman who actively sought to build ties with the East Bloc and to overcome the rigidities of the cold war. He proposed a gradual easing of tension by a process he described as deéenté, entente, coopération. He recognized the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and urged Bonn to do the same. He also urged international acceptance of East Germany. The basic outlines of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik were traced several years earlier by De Gaulle. In the Middle East, De Gaulle...
...disease has struck nowhere more dramatically than it has in Canada. Climaxing a long series of bombings and bank robberies, the French-Canadian separatist group known as the Front de Libération du Québec (F.L.Q.) kidnaped two high officials: James R. Cross, British trade commissioner in Montreal and, later, Quebec Labor Minister Pierre
...vesque and his colleagues are moderates committed to electoral democracy. At the same time that his ideas were gaining prominence a different breed of separatist was developing: disaffected radicals committed to violent action. In 1962, these activists created the Front de Libération du Québec. They systematically began planting bombs in mailboxes, robbing banks, setting fire to government buildings. Kidnaping is their latest weapon. "There is no difference between the F.L.Q. and the liberation movement of Palestine, of Viet Nam, of Black Power," says F.L.Q. Leader Charles Gagnon...
...other side of the Nixon Doctrine, which offers U.S. assistance to Asian nations in the form of supplies rather than troops, has proved a greater success. That ubiquitous talisman of an American presence, the C-ration kit, is readily available at any cigarette stand in midtown Phnom-Penh. At Pochentong Airport, five or six planes land each day carrying up to five tons of American materiel. Still the U.S. presence in Cambodia is, for the most part, limited and discreet. "We don't need another client state," says one U.S. diplomat in Phnom-Penh. "Whether we can pull this...