Word: whiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Not all were willing to accept the luck of the draw. While a few talked of flight to Canada and some of seeking exemptions on physical or psychological grounds, most searched for alternatives to the draft. A few planned to seek conscientious-objector status; some expected to enlist in a...
Several of the foreign ministers, including West Germany's Walter Scheel, remained convinced that the West nonetheless should display a readiness to negotiate with the Soviets. The final communique, though weighted in favor of the American position, was a compromise. While the NATO ministers welcomed the Warsaw Pact'...
Mao fancies himself the champion of Marxist purity, combatting the "revisionist" heresies of Moscow and Belgrade. Yet his expositions of dialectics are sometimes primitive, to say the least. In a speech in Hangchow in 1965, Mao tried to explain the complex Hegelian-Marxist concept of "thesis-antithesis-synthesis" by explaining...
Three-Way Trade. The U.S. and Israel began pressing for the release of the two TWA passengers soon after they were imprisoned, but the Syrians at first refused to consider any kind of deal. Israel then turned to the Egyptians, who suggested a wider swap of prisoners. As talks progressed...
Beer, Blondes and Buñuel. The Second Vatican Council changed all that. Although seminarians at the Greg had been advised by their colleges not even to discuss the council while it was in progress, the meeting had its effect soon enough. First, Pope Paul VI eased out conservative Giuseppe...