Word: antagonistical
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...excellent opportunity to improve relations with the Soviet Union, an opportunity that will become reality only if our leaders are open-minded enough to measure the Soviets by what they do, rather than what they can do Fulbright is heartened by the transformation of President Reagan from antagonist to cautious friend of the Soviets and hopes that President Bush can adopt Reagan's new manner of thinking about the Soviets...
Manley also wants a "new beginning" with the U.S. and plans to visit Washington soon after taking office. The U.S., for its part, is ready to reconsider relations with its old antagonist. "Essentially what he stresses is that he wants to work constructively with us," says a State Department official. "We'll remain a bit skeptical until we see what policies he works up. But right now we're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt...
Moscow retaliated by expelling three Canadian diplomats and barring ten others from re-entering the country. Despite Soviet charges that Ottawa had committed a "rude antagonist act," the Kremlin's response was relatively restrained, suggesting that the affair was unlikely to seriously disrupt relations between the two countries...
Mandery said he hopes the council will not limit the agenda for the upcoming meeting to the open forum issue. "I think it would be a more productive tactic to have the Corporation perceive us as an ally rather than an antagonist," he said...
...Ambassador in Moscow, is particularly troubled by the unwarranted optimism he believes has erupted. "The little evidence we have is that this guy Gorbachev is a pretty orthodox fellow." Moscow's global ambitions and its "centralized authoritarian rule" seem unlikely to change, he says. "The Soviet Union is our antagonist and will be for the indefinite future...