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...agreements on arms control, trade and other issues with the U.S. Western analysts, and diplomats generally, agree that the dispute over human rights resembles a skirmish on a long cease-fire line. Says one Kremlin watcher: "There does seem to be a fairly sharp distinction between this kind of tit-for-tatism and issues like SALT...
Hume describes a feud based on random, vendetta killings. "Many, many innocent people have been killed," he says. "There's a tit-for-tat campaign of sectarian murder, where randomly chosen Catholics and Protestants are killed by the violent groups, simply because of their religion and for no other reason at all." One day the IRA kills a Protestant, Hume says, and the next day the Ulster Defence Association retaliates and kills a Catholic...
...were to have journalistically evaluated my road trip down to last year's Dartmouth-Harvard game, I might have been able to expound on what a "weak-tit" atmosphere I found. But I would have been mistaken. Harvard weekend last year, despite the loss of the football and soccer teams and the torrential precipitation, was one of the landmarks of my freshman year. So what if Harvard people interrupted their studying (tooling) on Friday night just long enough to throw water balloons on visiting Dartmouth students four stories below. Or, how about the John who challenged some "Animals...
...alliance with the Social Democratic states of Western Europe, all of whom had better stands than the Nixon-Kissinger-Ford axis on Spain, Portugal and Italy, as well as the third world. The "European alliance," stressed at the expense of U.S. Soviet relations, means the diminution of tit-for-tat negotiating with the Soviets, lessening the chance of nuclear war growing out of quarrels like those which recently brewed over southern Africa. We can also expect more support from a Carter administration for majority rule in that area--not least because black Americans were Carter's earliest and most loyal...
Sullivan's students say he often refers to his term of duty in part of a support division as "tit city" in a "country club." "The whole thing's a rather arcane subject, wouldn't you say?" he says. "I'd think you should probably be writing about the Mitre Corporation intervening in Portugal for the CIA, or something like that the future instead of the past...