Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morrow says "American men rarely kiss other men, unless they are father and son, or unless they are homosexual." Obviously, Morrow has not attended an Italian-American wedding...
Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, recognizes the problem. Carter's approach "doesn't mean that we don't deal with nations unless they meet some arbitrarily defined American standards of human rights. But in every case in which there is a significant violation, we ought to use some of our leverage to obtain amelioration...
Carter seems to think that a SALT agreement will not be accepted by the U.S. public unless he takes a strong, principled stand on human rights. The President feels so strongly about this, says Aide Hamilton Jordan, that he would press Moscow on the issue even if "there was a risk that the action jeopardized our relationships with the Soviet Union on other matters like nuclear proliferation and the reduction of arms...
...shoo-in for Indira. That was the dominant opinion when, after a year and a half of "emergency" rule, India's Prime Minister two months ago called elections for mid-March. Presumably, went the argument, shrewd Indira Gandhi would not be going to the voters unless she was certain of victory. But by last week, many observers in New Delhi were convinced that the elections Mrs. Gandhi could not lose had turned into a horse race...
...Hell, Plains is turning into a three-ring circus." So much so that Billy has been all but driven from his familiar haunts: a discarded school bus seat blocks access to the back room of the famous service station where he quaffs his afternoon beers, and nobody is admitted unless the employee who stands guard gives the O.K. Billy has even bought 170 acres of secluded woodland not far from town to build a new house, hidden from tourists...