Word: aspidistra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spokesman George S. Vest, "a supporting, catalytic adjunct" to the Geneva talks. But a Kissinger aide described the perils of personal diplomacy in words that were more germane: "The style and inclination of the man is to go and do it himself. But once you have sent the biggest aspidistra of them all, you are out of aspidistras...
...Links. Actually, the biggest aspidistra had been sent because the talks were bogging down. The men charged with plotting preliminary military disengagement at Geneva-Israeli General Mordechai Gur and General Taha El Magdoub of Egypt-had done well enough with the "technical models" that they proposed for separating forces in Sinai. The difficulty was that on both sides, the proposed military moves were inextricably connected to political decisions that neither general could make.Thus, after two meetings last week, totaling 3½ hours at Geneva's Palais des Nations, the military talks adjourned and discussions shifted home...