Word: unlikelyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's most questionable foreign policy performance has been his handling of U.S.-Soviet relations. His early penchant for open diplomacy and dramatic gestures, like publicly calling for drastic cuts in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals, almost immediately threw Moscow off balance and probably slowed the pace of the...
It was an unlikely setting for a Middle East peace conference. Leeds Castle, a moat-surrounded medieval fortress, is set like a crown jewel in the placid English countryside southeast of London. Henry VIII once lived there with Anne Boleyn, his second wife, before love soured and he had her...
Although the post is largely ceremonial, the President has the power to appoint premiers and to choose the moment for calling national elections. For that reason, the Christian Democrats were reluctant to surrender their hold on the office to another party. Beyond that, they felt that Pertini was being "imposed...
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edmund Crispin (Walker; 287 pages; $8.95). In one of Crispin's earlier books, a mystery novelist confides: "Our plots are necessarily improbable, but I believe in making sure that they are not impossible." With Glimpses, his first detective story in a quarter-century...
In Washington, D.C., organizers of Sunday's pro-Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) march, which drew 100,000 heavily-recruited supporters, were making their final preparations for the rally to save their endangered legislation. The ratification deadline for the bill falls next March, and it is highly unlikely that the necessary...