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...hard therefore to understand why our proposals have provoked such outspoken displeasure on the part of responsible U.S. statesmen. Attempts have been made to portray them as nothing but pure propaganda. Anyone even slightly familiar with the matter would easily see that behind our proposals there are most serious intentions and not just an attempt to influence public opinion. All real efforts to limit nuclear weapons began with a ban on tests --just recall the 1963 treaty that was a first major step in that direction. A complete end to nuclear tests would halt the nuclear arms race...
...books donated by John Harvard of England. Now it owns the second largest library in the world and has monetary assets in the billions. But Harvard College is still the core of this network. It's still the one that produced five presidents and scores of Congressmen and statesmen...
...These statesmen forbore going to court in part because they doubted the courts would, or should, be open to them. The Federalists, the party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, enacted in 1798 a Sedition Act that imposed criminal penalties for "false, scandalous and malicious writing" about the Government, Congress or the President. The law proved so unpopular that it contributed to the Federalists' defeat in 1800 and later disappearance; the statute expired in 1801, and has been regarded as unconstitutional...
Deng actually delivered those remarks at the October meeting of the Central Advisory Commission, a grouping of the Communist Party's elder statesmen, but the full text had not been published before. In what was clearly a dramatic effort to give the reform movement even greater momentum, the country's press carried the speech on front pages. "No country can now develop by closing its door," said Deng, in a spirited defense of his policy of building ties to the West. "We suffered from this, and our forefathers suffered from this. Isolation landed China in poverty, backwardness and ignorance." Only...
Often TIME'S staff members invite distinguished statesmen whom they have met as correspondents. Former Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader helped to bring in West Germany's then Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Onetime Paris Bureau Chief Henry Muller invited French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. As Senior Editor Muller puts it, "Hearing someone present a policy in person, regardless of what other information or analysis you have, helps you to understand that policy better...