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...most people perceive. On Mother's Day, he sent boxes of candy to the White House telephone operators. It used to drive us to distraction the way he would constantly be meeting with people who had no relation to the business at hand. Like, maybe, a Boy Scout troop-he'd be over in the White House theater telling them about the place...
...held in Helsinki and attended by 35 Foreign Ministers (TIME, July 16), the Europeans openly voiced their suspicions that Nixon may have made too many concessions to Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. They suspected that Nixon gave in to the Russians on such issues as mutual-but not necessarily balanced-troop withdrawals and nuclear deescalation...
...when a June election in Ulster would have been a kind of summer festival, exuberant with fifes and drums and oratorical flourish. The long months of gunfire and explosions have made that impossible. The streets of Belfast are devoid of parades and rallies; they are patrolled by British armored troop carriers, the soldiers alert for snipers. Voters generally remain in the relative safety of their homes, watching the campaign on television...
...poor blacks. Out of that experience has grown his conviction that everyone ought to share well in the rewards of the System. Deffet was born and reared in Columbus, attending Catholic schools and later the University of Dayton for two years. After an Army hitch in an Alaska ski troop and several years in his father-in-law's Columbus real estate business, he struck out on his own with $10,000 in borrowed money. Now, twelve years later, a modishly dressed Deffet operates from a plush, mahogany-paneled office...
...onslaught by the greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern war? Why did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...