Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Noam Chomsky, professor of language and linguistics at MIT, was one of seven prominent American activists to sign a statement condemning Soviet silencing policies which was presented to the World Peace Congress in Moscow on Monday...
Among the other five leftists to sign the statement were the Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, David McReynolds, a member of the War Resisters League, and David T. Dellinger who is currently on trial for contempt in the 1969 Chicago Eight case...
...most hopeful sign that they might be making progress was yet an other of Henry Kissinger's sudden, surprise trips, this one to Moscow, where he began a series of private meetings over the Middle East crisis with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Kissinger had spent much of the week with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington, but he managed to cover his departure with a typical, though perhaps inevitable, Kissinger feint; he spent the evening at a glittering dinner party hosted by Huang Chen, the head of China's liaison office in Washington. That affair had been...
...partly as a diplomatic weapon in its rivalry with China (unable to match the Soviet military contribution, China has had to settle so far with mere pronouncements of support to the Arabs). Moreover, Brezhnev's whole leadership rests on his détente policy, and there is no sign of any serious second thought or new resistance to this policy within the Kremlin. The Soviet need for American food and other trade is still great, and international agreements over nuclear weapons, the emplacement of military forces in Europe, and the status of national boundaries in Eastern Europe still take...
...troops seemed at ease and relaxed, despite the occasional incoming rounds of artillery. Reinforcing their confidence was the arrival at the front of supplies airlifted to Israel from America. The roads were full of trucks with English markings. A further encouraging sign to the troops was the exodus of many senior commanders from a permanent command post in the middle of the Sinai. When we asked where these officers had gone, we were told with a wink that they were "far forward." We assumed that meant on the Egyptian side of the canal...