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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ravages of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. In 1966-67, Peking recalled its ambassadors from all over the world. Even now it has replaced only one in Eastern Europe-in Rumania, which has remained neutral in the Sino-Soviet quarrel. Late last year, presumably in a test of the new Nixon Administration, the Chinese agreed to a single meeting in Warsaw in February, only to cancel it abruptly after a Chinese diplomat in Holland defected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CHINA: ON THE VERGE OF SPEAKING TERMS | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, the superpowers' agreement that radioactive fallout must stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Top of the Decade: Environment | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...North. The Administration belatedly switched signals to avoid the embarrassment of backing a segregationist ploy already ruled unconstitutional. HEW civil rights lawyers pointed out that if the original Whitten amendment passed, the Administration would have little choice but to denounce it as such, or to institute a quick court test to underline the point. Either way, the Administration would have been forced into taking direct actions repugnant to the South, countermanding the Congress and endangering future HEW appropriations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Setbacks for Segregationists | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...achieving social justice that has divided other Americans since the birth of the Republic. A majority of seven members declared that they could not endorse a principle that may encourage anarchy. They suggested that a law should be obeyed, even if it may be unconstitutional, until a few citizens test the issue in the courts. Among the six commissioners who disagreed was Patricia Roberts Harris,* former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. Mrs. Harris, a Negro, pointed out that blacks would have made little progress if they had relied on lawful tactics alone. "A nation whose history enshrines the civil disobedience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: How to Heal a Violent Society | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...glass was little help in explaining those obscure polysyllables: propylene glycol, calcium silicate, butylated hydroxyanisole, sorbitan monostearate, methylparaben. Today, the portmanteau word for such substances is "additives"-which translates into myriad chemicals that have made even bread a laboratory product and the cheese spread to put on it a test-tube concoction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food Additives: Blessing or Bane? | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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