Both Kennedy and Johnson had begun to institute talks on weapons testing and proliferation, but Détente, as a policy, was pursued much more vigorously with Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger (Penna, par. 2). ... As Henry Kissinger observed, "the proposition that to some extent we had to collaborate with our adversary while resisting him found a constituency only with great difficulty; the emotional bias was with a simpler verities of an earlier age" (437). ...

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The massacres of Catholic Henry III of France 1589, Protestant William the Silent of the Dutch Republic 1584, and Protestant turned Catholic Henry IV of France 1610 after 19 failed attempts, as well as countless massacres and wars provoked by religious differences, impelled a new approach to governing. ... At 1st her accession seemed nothing more than a continuations of monarchical instability - her first two acts were to have her husband, Peter III, murdered and to lower the salt tax. ...

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Language Policy and Planning go together. Language Policy is the legal and statutory measures aimed at regulating language use, while the Language Planning is language policy's practical implementation or execution that hinges upon goals, strategies and assessment of outcomes. (Rubin 1983) Hence in Language Planning literature both Language Planning and Language Policy and Planning (LPP) are used interchangeably. I am quite enamoured by the slogan placed in the top right of the letter of invite sent by the organizers of the Global Conclave for Konkani Language Planning: "Respecting e...

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