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...more immediate problem, U.S. officials remain optimistic that the crisis attending the expiration of the U.N. mandate on the Golan Heights can be settled without serious incident. Kissinger has remained in close touch with President Assad and has received no ultimatum from him that he would not renew the mandate...
...wrote that the Soviets would "make every possible effort" to have the Geneva Conference reconvene as soon as possible but probably not before the Soviet leader's visit to Syria in January. In exchange for such an assurance, the Soviet diplomat added, the Syrians were "very likely" to renew the U.N. mandate before it expires Nov. 30. To do otherwise, as the Syrians must know, would involve a very serious risk...
...second volley of shots fired into a crowd during a rally to protest the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Then Attorney General John Mitchell refused to bring any federal charges. But parents, survivors and sympathizers would not accept that result. Last year Attorney General Elliot Richardson was persuaded to renew the investigation. This time a federal grand jury charged eight of the Guardsmen with willfully violating the victims' civil rights...
...Jackson. The Secretary of State presented the general thesis. Jackson provided the specifics: emigration would eventually reach the goal of at least 60,000 a year (compared to the high of 35,000 in 1973). After 18 months, Congress would review the Soviets emigration practices and decide whether to renew the Soviets' trade status. Jackson praised Kissinger and declared: "We have agreed upon an unprecedented measure to bring the blessings of liberty to those brave men and women who have asked only for the chance to find freedom in a new land...
...Communist Party USA. She openly denounces the "corporate pigs" and capitalist system that allows them to exploit her brothers and sisters. In 1970, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the UCLA Board of Regents sought to fire her from her teaching post at UCLA and they eventually did not renew her contract because she is a member of the party. Public opinion polls in California at the time indicated that a majority of citizens felt the state universities should not allow Communists to teach. It was this anti-communist emotionalism and the fears of the metaphorical rhetoric--"Smash the State," "...We rejoice...