Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bear Hugs. As they listen to Arab fulminations, the Russians are becoming more cautious about their involvement with the Arabs. They gave a bear hug to Algeria's Houari Boumediene when he visited Moscow last week-but little else. They were aware that Boumediene is trying to stake a claim to leadership of the Arab left, but they made plain that Nasser is still their No. 1 man in the Middle East; after all, they have already replaced 200 of his 350 destroyed planes. Boumediene went to Moscow straight from Cairo, where five of the more militant and left...
...some critics, it seemed that Columbia had acquired a stake in getting more Americans to smoke more cigarettes-filtered. Not that precedents are lacking: all over the U.S., education benefits directly and indirectly from state and federal tobacco (to say nothing of liquor) taxes. Many university endowments keep tobacco stocks in their portfolios, prizing their steady earnings. And one great American university was founded with tobacco money, from the fortune of James B. Duke...
...standoff in Europe and Southeast Asia, but that both had meanwhile been supplying Middle East nations with "a pretty remarkable list" of arms. It predicted that the superpowers would stay out of a Middle East war, however, because "their own soldiers and their ideological honor are not immediately at stake...
...object to what I consider a doctrine of "might makes right" in your Essay on Israel [June 23]. It is a fact that "ability to stake out a territory" with force if necessary will establish a sovereign state, but is that also its justification? What about groups that have identity and tradition but no power, for example, the American Indian and South Africa's Negro population? I am surprised at your lack of a sense of moral consciousness; or should I be glad that a national publication has had the candor to admit that for all of our 20th...
Gibes & Outrage. The response to such diatribes was as quick as it was predictable. In leftist Algeria, where France has a big stake in oil production, the semiofficial newspaper lauded De Gaulle's "customary lucidity," his "striking lesson of wisdom and political courage." L'Humanité, the French Communist daily, praised the President's stand. And the official French radio network ecstatically reported that "all eyes" in New York had suddenly swiveled toward Paris...