Word: responded
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Quite a rap at Western democracy, particularly the U.S. version. How valid are Solzhenitsyn's criticisms? TIME asked eight Americans-all members of "the ruling groups and the intellectual elite " that Solzhenitsyn was scolding-to respond...
There was no reaction to that emotional charge in Jerusalem. The Israelis were worried about Premier Menachem Begin's health and embroiled in a domestic debate about how the government should respond to Washington's request for more details on Israel's plan for autonomy for the occupied West Bank. His doctors say that Begin, who was resting at home last week, suffers from diabetes and heart trouble, but rumors persist that his health is worse than has been acknowledged. He both looks and acts ill. During a Cabinet meeting recently, Begin's head dropped...
...Administration was fully aware of African criticism of the Western role in Zaïre, and of the danger that the Soviet Union and Cuba might respond to the creation of a pro-Western African force by trying to assemble a radical African military power capable of causing serious mischief in Rhodesia and other trouble spots. The Administration also realized that in underscoring its opposition to Soviet-Cuban adventurism in Africa, the U.S. must not appear to be embracing the policies of South Africa and Rhodesia, whose governments have quietly hoped that the recent troubles in Zaïre would...
...have a world view so charged with the desolation of the past and the anguish of living memory that all sense of trust has been eradicated. Many Jews today are tormented by the past, troubled by the present, fearful of survival in the future. Asked about the occupation, they respond that it is benign, that the Palestinians never had it so good, that anyway Israel would not be an occupier if the Arabs had not compelled it to fight. In the end, they ignore the problem. They turn their eyes from Palestinian troubles and finally talk about something else...
...encircled by Soviet-dominated countries, Peking this year has dispatched high-level diplomatic missions to Burma, Nepal and North Korea in an effort to shore up good relations with border nations. The verbal fireworks that China has exploded over the refugee issue are a clear warning that Peking will respond even more menacingly to any attempt by Hanoi to overthrow the pro-Chinese regime in Cambodia or to establish Soviet naval or missile bases in Viet...