Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critical Juncture. On balance, the pact is a significant success for Soviet foreign policy at a time when the Kremlin has had a surfeit of diplomatic setbacks. Nor is there any doubt that it was a disturbing defeat for U.S. policy (see box). The treaty was signed less than 24...
Though the Vatican officially kept hands off the highly successful referendum campaign, Rome's conservative II Messaggero charged the Vatican with interference nonetheless. Said La Stampa's Carlo Casalegno: "The anti-divorzisti were able to lean on the church structure, hundreds of dioceses, thousands of religious institutions, and...
Jammed into giant halls, 273,000 French teen-agers sweated through the notorious 13-to 18-hr. tortures of oral and written baccalauréat exams last week. They seemed docile enough. After all, their careers, future incomes and their very status in French society were at stake. But below...
Still, there is a growing confluence of interests, particularly within Europe's industrialized heartland. After World War II, many countries in the area underwent the shattering upheaval of a switchover from rural-to urban-dominated societies. At the same time, they experienced a baby boom that has given West...
The huge library contains records of every telephone call to and from Johnson during his presidency, diaries of every minute of those five years-including notations about naps and meals -staff memos by the tens of thousands, tons of task-force reports and Cabinet studies, and millions of feet of...