Word: showing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still not very satisfied at the way the British are handling things. When they proceeded without us to talk to the Salisbury group, it confirmed our suspicions: Lord Carrington just wants to show the world an acceptable constitution and then say that the Patriotic Front is refusing to implement this reasonable document because the interim arrangements are not to its satisfaction. They want to lift sanctions and pass legislation for a government that will play their tune. This is what I call the law of Moses. Carrington is the type of man who believes he can make no mistakes...
There are limits to liberalization in post-Mao China. In a pair of public show trials, portions of which were broadcast on China's scanty television network, two of the country's most prominent dissidents were served up as examples for Chinese citizens who take constitutional guarantees of free speech too literally. First to enter the dock was former Red Guard Wei Jingsheng, 29, who last year tacked up a famous wall poster calling for "the fifth modernization - democracy." As editor of Tansuo, he published an article detailing the harsh treatment of political detainees at Qincheng prison, outside...
Leonid Brezhnev was not at the airport to greet Syrian President Hafez Assad when he arrived in Moscow last week for a three-day state visit. Nor did the Soviet President and Party Chief show up for a Kremlin dinner in Assad's honor. Both absences were grave breaches of protocol. Since nothing is seriously amiss with Syrian-Soviet relations, Brezhnev's non-appearances quickly led to speculation that he was seriously...
...stories of Brezhnev's demise gathered momentum when Agence France Presse reported from Brussels that Moscow's regular evening news program had been canceled for important state reasons; the press agency speculated that an announcement about Brezhnev's health was imminent. In fact, the Moscow news show went on as scheduled. Meanwhile, Soviet embassies in the world's capitals were flooded with inquiries-especially after it was learned that three American specialists had performed eye surgery on a se nior Kremlin leader. (He was not Brezhnev but probably Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov, 76.) In New York...
...else had any money left?") New York Mayor Jimmy Walker asked movie theaters not to run newsreels of the Wall Street panic, but to show instead "pictures which will reinstate courage and hope in the hearts of the people...