Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senator Frank Church, who was visiting Moscow, that the current U.S.-U.S.S.R. meetings in Helsinki on limiting strategic arms are "the most important talks going on in the world today"-a hint, perhaps, that the Soviets may respond to the Nixon trip by seeking their own accommodations with the West rather than turning more belligerent. There was private speculation in Washington that a SALT agreement might bring Nixon and Soviet leaders together for the signing and produce an American-Soviet summit even before Nixon goes to Peking...
They recommended draconian measures. One memo suggested a "demonstration drop" of a "nuclear device" over North Viet Nam, to be followed by "the use of nuclear bombs and devices where militarily suitable," if Hanoi did not respond and make peace. Another called for "employing atomic weapons whenever advantageous...
...first China did not respond. But by late 1969, there were clear signs of Chinese interest. For one thing, China agreed to resume the Warsaw talks, which had opened in 1955 to explore avenues toward peaceful coexistence. Even when the U.S. invaded Cambodia, the talks, though suspended, were not cut off. Peking's response was exceptionally restrained, considering its past responses to American military moves. Nor did the invasion of Laos unduly upset the Chinese. By this time, it was the North Vietnamese who were disturbed, reacting with alarm to the mildness shown by their ally. Chou...
...California contradiction-"the pursuit of the spirit without adequate traditions." But the confrontation had mortally wounded Miller's vanity. Far from home ground, he had no one to buttress his top-heavy personality. "Who would tell me I was good?" he whimpered when an Eastern colleague failed to respond sympathetically to his complaining letters. By this time his ego began to resemble a shriveled eggplant. Waves of anxiety paralyzed his will...
...Gerald acquainted his friends in France with such American contrivances as jazz records and waffle irons, portable bathhouses and inflatable rubber horses. Fitzgerald was so awed by Murphy's taste that he thought it must apply to everything and consulted him on literary matters. Gerald did not really respond to his friend's work. Indeed, it was only on rereading Tender Is the Night years later that he recognized that pages and pages of detail had been lifted intact from his life...