Word: reassertions
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...vacuum in Washington. Now Richard Nixon is reacting against this feeling of drift. Under the pressure of events, he has begun to exhort and to "jawbone." The pace is still hardly breakneck or the mood galvanic compared with those of more activist Presidents, but Nixon is clearly determined to reassert a sense of leadership...
...post-Mao leadership, some very basic problems facing China will not fade away in the foreseeable future. The country will have a population of 1 billion by 1980, yet still lacks the solid industrial base that is a must for any modern power. Somehow, Peking will have to reassert the central government's authority over the vast hinterlands-something it lost during the Cultural Revolution. At the same time it will have to determine whether it should soften its standoffish attitude toward the rest of the world. Eventually it will no doubt have to consider toning down its hostility...
...previous generation, and in consequence may tend to be less excited or shocked by nudity or scenes that show copulation. The strongest evidence suggests that total permissiveness in the arts is a result, not a cause, of relaxed standards of conduct. The majority of psychologists and behaviorists in effect reassert the familiar dictum that no girl was ever ruined by reading a book?and no boy was ever seduced by a girl appearing onstage without her clothes...
...world Communism. The Soviet leaders need a successful conference to prove to their own people that they are indeed the legitimate heirs of Lenin. "To justify one-party rule," says Kremlinologist Victor Zorza, "you must have an international sanction." The Soviet leaders also need the international endorsement to reassert their primacy within Eastern Europe. For all these reasons, Leo Labedz, editor of Survey, a London quarterly on Communist affairs, calls the conference an attempt to find "an ideological fig leaf" to cover Russia's own self-interest. None of this, of course, would be so brazenly expressed in St. George...
...convene a world conference to deal with the Chinese. After the ouster of Khrushchev in 1964, the summit plan was shelved until three years ago, when the collective Kremlin leadership of Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin began to push for a meeting where the Soviets could try to reassert their old primacy within international Communism. Twice a date was set only to be scrubbed -first by the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets and then by the continuing ire of foreign Communists at Moscow's post-invasion ideological posturing. The Soviets persisted, and finally some 70 parties accepted...