Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reported that President Ford plans this week to set clear limits on the agencies' authority. For example, he will reaffirm the prohibition against domestic undercover work by the CIA. Presidential Counselor John O. Marsh worked through the weekend polishing the President's reform program, but the broad outlines were set by Ford last week on the basis of five months of research by his staff. Ford intends to unveil measures that will preserve much of the agencies' structure but subject them to more Executive oversight and control. Highlights...
...deliberate effort to present the American public with a fait accompli. Although American intervention has now been made public, Ford and Kissinger continue to repudiate any notion of democratic participation in foreign policy decision making by their use of discretionary funds to aid anti-MPLA factions. The House should reaffirm the Senate's opposition to such aid in its upcoming session, and Congress should take severe measures to prevent American interference in Angola. Such steps would be a key move toward recapturing control over foreign policy from administrators not responsible to the American public...
Similarly, Hollywood films during the Depression present the conflicts that wracked American society but ultimately reaffirm the American Dream. Films such as De Sica's A Brief Vacation and Scorcese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore pose the issues of women's oppression but resolve them romantically. The key to such films' failure to transcend the problems they raise lies in their use of the stereotyped plots and characters of romantic comedy and tragedy. The logic of these genres leads either to a happy ending brought about by Fortune or an unhappy ending brought about by Fate; in either...
Planning a bombing required a "political struggle" session, usually at night, in which members debated tactics. Often the sessions evolved into heated and bitter "criticism-self-criticism" marathons, a Maoist technique to solidify political beliefs and reaffirm revolutionary commitments. Grathwohl was once badgered by other cell members for 16 straight hours for not showing enough interest in becoming a leader of the cell. Another time, cell members pressured a young mother to give away her four-year-old daughter because they thought that she interfered with her work. Was the woman into maternity or was she into revolution? Recalls Grathwohl...
Vischer proposes that the Vatican think about renouncing its political sovereignty, which was established by a 1929 treaty with Italy, and instead set itself up as some sort of "extraterritorial zone secured by international guarantees." Most probably, the net effect of the Vischer proposal will be to reaffirm Pope Paul's stated position that any idea that the Roman Catholic Church might some day join the World Council is merely "a hypothesis...