Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This all-the-world's-a-stage approach to affairs of state comes at a rather delicate time. We have just been assaulted not only by a cascade of Washington-power books but also by their movie and television adaptations. Fiction and truth seem to blend. Robert Chartrand, the Library of Congress's top information-systems scientist, says that even in his orderly mind, dedicated to quick retrieval of facts, there is difficulty sorting out what is real...
...Ismail Fahmy and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. The U.S. strategy was to discuss the working-paper provisions along with other American proposals that the Israelis had not agreed to, in hopes that Arab reaction might lead to further refinements of a formula for Geneva. Apparently the approach worked. As one leading Arab diplomat told TIME, "There have been more pluses than minuses for us in these sessions...
Both in meetings with European Community nations and in NATO huddles Washington has carefully coordinated its approach on human rights with its European allies. In essence, the consensus has been to play it forte but not dangerously fortissimo. Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands are solidly behind the issue, as is France...
...drill is to walk to the bomb alone, describing what can be seen. Major Thomas, weary and middleaged, too old for the game, takes shelter behind a pillar in Westminster Abbey as his friend Osgood makes the first approach. Speak ing for the tape recorder that is the hedge against future failure, Osgood reports that the thing is in a neatly made wooden box, as usual. No wires or fuses are visible. The customary message is scrawled across the top: "Bugger the Queen Mum." The I.R.A., of course...
...Osgood makes his second approach to the bomb in Westminster Abbey, calmly reporting his progress. And disappears in a great flash of blue light. When Thomas, who is stunned by the blast, recovers consciousness, he finds that a new and much cleverer bomb maker is working for the terrorists. He must deal with the man because there is no one else...