Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians are aware of the power of nuance and symbol, and the fact that the President stopped off on his way to Moscow so that he could meet with America's NATO allies was a decided plus for the U.S. Nixon's presence in Brussels was a signal to the Soviets that NATO'S disarray of the past year was at least patched over and that the Atlantic shield was once again in place. "Without the alliance, it is doubtful that the [Soviet-American] détente would have begun," Nixon said as he replied...
...caravan arrived with thunder and a blast of hot air from the helicopter rotors and the speeches on the south lawn of the White House. Almost as if Nixon's arrival were a signal, the high-energy politicians began to shoot off and collide with each other. The presidential propaganda office cranked out in awed gasps stories of the millions of joyful Arabs who had shouted praises for Nixon. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler talked in super-superlatives of new eras, of more and better chances for peace. There were box scores of miles traveled (14,775), records broken (first...
...extent, was caused by a political desire to divert attention from Watergate. The Kalbs report that Kissinger later admitted, privately, that the alert had perhaps been on a larger scale than necessary. At any rate, as he and the Kalbs see it, the alert gave the Russians a clear signal of U.S. determination not to allow unilateral intervention in the Middle East and made possible a U.N. resolution for a peacekeeping force excluding the two superpowers. It was an illustration of Kissinger's belief that, in dealing with the Soviets, "we need a combination of extreme toughness, when...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has resumed his unrelenting chronicle of Soviet terror, which provoked the Kremlin into deporting him four months ago. From his home in exile in Zurich, the Russian writer gave the signal for the publication of the oft-postponed second volume of his trilogy, The Gulag Archipelago, by the Russian-language Y.M.C.A. Press in Paris.* An exhaustive, harrowing 657-page account of the forced-labor system under Lenin and Stalin, Gulag II may well be Solzhenitsyn's most stunning achievement to date...
Against a dark background, a pinkish ovarian follicle swells until an egg bursts forth and sails along the convoluted lining of the fallopian tube like a miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from...