Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfolding Mystery. Negotiations for the swap had been carried out under tight security wraps. As the mystery unfolded last week, the U.S. Government acknowledged its crucial role as intermediary between Chile and the U.S.S.R., which have no diplomatic relations. Last month the Chilean junta, anxious to polish up its image in Washington, released about 300 political prisoners, while holding on to Corvalán for an exchange that would have dramatic public relations value. Washington suggested that Bukovsky would be a candidate for a swap. Acting as go-betweens in discussions between Chilean and Soviet diplomats in Washington were...
...Pentagon, and toured the national military command center. On appointments, however, he remained intentionally slow and methodical. While flying on a chartered Boeing 727 from Atlanta to Washington, he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "These may be the most important two months of my first term. I'm anxious to get people into their jobs so that they take responsibility from me that I don't need to have. Right now I'm the Secretary of the Treasury, I'm the Secretary of Defense, I'm the Secretary of Commerce, and all the paper work that would normally...
...controversy over the South Korean Trade Association's gift of $1 million to the East Asian Studies Department has sparked a chorus of denials, rationalizations, and hypocritical buck-passing from the Harvard administration, anxious to preserver its facade of liberal enlightenment. The KTA, closely tied to the Korean CIA, has been the conduit for funds from the right-wing Park dictatorship to influential policy-making institutions like Harvard in an attempt to buy further American economic and military aid. Park's regime has carried out massive executions and merciless tortures of those who dare to protest the miserably impoverished lives...
Above all, Vance is anxious that U.S. policy reflect his deep concern for human rights around the world. These principles, he said, "should permeate our foreign-policy thinking." He is not unaware of the practical necessities of dealing with dictatorships or of guarding U.S. security. But he argues that the task ahead for the U.S. is to strike a proper balance. Said he: "We have got to be hardheaded, yet sensitive...
Reclining on his paper-towel insulated lounge chair, the billionaire wrote entire scripts for Maheu-Hughes to play out for him in the exciting but fearsome world. When Maheu did not come back as quickly as possible with his report on a project, Hughes would get anxious. "Let me hear from you, Bob. I want to know that you agree with...