Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intentions. In one capital after another, Russian diplomats anxiously sought out their U.S. counterparts in informal attempts to learn how the policies and personalities of the new Administration may affect relations between the world's two superpowers. On the official level, Moscow has adopted a cautious wait-and-see attitude toward President-elect Nixon, despite his reputation there as a hardliner. As a West German diplomat noted: "For Khrushchev, Nixon was the epitome of the professional antiCommunist. But his successors evidently are smart enough to avoid anything that will turn Khrushchev's assessment into a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...Dissent. If the Soviet leaders do win some respite from international tensions, they will still have their hands full at home. An upsurge of intellectual dissent, of which Novelist Alexander Solzhenitzyn has become the symbol, has prompted a crackdown that is increasingly reminiscent of Stalin's day (see box). The economy is doing well, but not well enough. Last week, as the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met in the Great Kremlin Palace Congress Hall to consider the 1969 budget, the country's chief planner rattled off an impressive list of economic achievements (1968 income...
Stinking Thinking. Some analysts, principally British China-watchers in Hong Kong, see even deeper significance in the campaign. They are convinced that the extreme leftists who promoted the lunacies of the Cultural Revolution have been replaced at China's controls by the more conservative army. They believe that the army, which was one of the principal targets of the radical Red Guards, is wreaking its vengeance by shipping the young hooligans off to semi permanent exile, and in the name of their revered Mao, no less. In some provinces, most of the guardsmen find them selves shipped directly...
...students plan to hold a fashion show and put on a play to raise funds, but even if they succeed their school will still be in danger. There is a possibility that Washington will adopt the Annex program for its entire school system. The Strivers would like to see the idea spread, but they know that a large part of the Annex's appeal is that it is voluntary. Massive adoption, they fear, might well kill the spirit that makes Freedom Annex ring...
...frustrating year to get the study approved and organized. Then he did it up right: he got his marijuana from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs itself, and got the attorney general of Massachusetts to agree that nobody would be arrested for taking part in the experiments. (See pictures of modern cannabis culture...