Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting. That made Ford look like someone who had to defer to Soviet displeasure. Ford changed course as far as anyone could, offering Solzhenitsyn a standing invitation to the White House, but Solzhenitsyn last week preferred to issue statements. He accused the President of going to Helsinki to "sign the betrayal of Eastern Europe" and "acknowledge officially its slavery forever...
...Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean. Now the agency's recommendations have dried up. Intelligence sources variously describe the Directorate of Operations as "dead in the water" and "paralyzed." While CIA leaders call such characterizations overblown, other Government officials note that the agency has shown no sign of taking action, which might have been expected in the past, to restrain Portugal's lurch toward a left-whig dictatorship...
...Jackson accuses Ford of fostering "the illusion that substantive progress toward greater security in Europe has been made." As for the issue of Russian rule over the Baltic states, Jackson charges that "the President's signature on the CSCE documents will be invoked by the Soviets as a sign of the West's retreat from this crucial point of principle." Equally critical is Senator James Buckley, who asks: "What the devil is in [the declaration] for the West...
Before the leaders get to sign the declaration, they will have to endure an ordeal by rhetoric. Each leader will deliver a 20-minute speech (the time limit, like the declaration, is not enforceable), and each will listen to as many of the other speeches as he can bear...
Maggie is sitting on the floor of her room, her back to the window that overlooks the courtyard where the team can be seen coming back from the river. The "Sleeping" sign is no longer on her door, but she can't hear anyone knock because her hair dryer makes so much noise. Her hair is flowing down her shoulders, clean and wavy and blonde, and her light blue eyes peer out from under it with a soft, sad look in them...