Word: willes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The charter makes bows to such Western-style rights as freedom of the press and political parties. It also endorses equal rights ("There is no distinction on grounds of race, color, language or creed. Men and women have equality before the law"). Yet in each case there is a variation...
The world, the U.S. and the White House are different. Just how, we will begin to see when the tension now girdling the capital is finally eased, with or without tragedy. A new era is coming.
"We will hear fewer prayers and more verses of the Marine Hymn in the next year," says one member of the White House. Gibes a Marine officer: "That was always good music."
Diplomatic standings will change in the coming era, some up, some down. The Soviet Union's smooth-talking Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin will rate lower. So will former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and certain diplomats from the Third World. Henry Kissinger, former everything, will step a notch up. So will...
After the world has been steeped in the preaching of Khomeini, the traditional American political flaws of booze, sex and money will not seem quite so bad, predicts the American Enterprise Institute's Ben Wattenberg. "Libertines will get a boost."