Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger, however, is a very practical man and he has a contingency plan. He has talked it over in bits and pieces for some time with the President. At the start of 1976, he went over it once more with Ford, so that there was no misunderstanding. He understood, he told the President, that events could make it necessary for him to resign to prevent Ford's political defeat. Kissinger was ready and willing on signal. And he would do it so that it would not impair the continuity of America's foreign policy. Just what signal Ford...
...long thought that all these formations, processions, dedications were part of a clever propagandistic revue. Now I finally understood that for Hitler they were almost like rites of the founding of a church... he was deliberately giving up the smaller claim to the status of a celebrated popular hero in order to gain the far greater status of founder of a religion...
...rendered newsworthy as a backdrop for CIA disclosures, foreign policy foibles and the restive ghost of Vietnam, there was a war raging in Angola. And it now appears that in the next few years there will be a still more intense guerrilla war raging in Angola. Few have understood the real issue at stake in this conflict--majority rule--buried as it were beneath the stifling mantle of superpower politics. But if Vietnam has taught little else, surely we have learned that the will of a people, regardless of the odds against them, shall determine the outcome of their struggle...
...polls and asserting Soviet control over this area of Africa. Many well-intentioned liberals and progressives point to the Soviet Union's longstanding support of liberation movements as justification of its escalation of the war and the intrusion of nearly 15,000 Cuban troops. Herein lies the deeper, little-understood tragedy of this Angolan war and the issue that lumps the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the very same boat--superpower intrusion. The aid which the Soviet Union gave MPLA during the 14 years of anti-colonial struggle was more than offset by sums dispatched to persuade or blackmail...
...Spellman didn't fit in at Harvard. For one, A.B. (and everybody called him that, not Mr., or professor or sir) believes that there are other ways to teach students besides boring them with texts or testing them until the information, however unimportant, is understood...