Word: auge
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...countries have been on opposite sides of the complex Middle East chessboard. In recent years, however, Soviet officials have hinted that they would like to talk with the Israelis again. After months of elaborate negotiation, the two countries confirmed last week that their representatives will meet Aug. 18 and 19 in Helsinki. The first publicly acknowledged talks between the nations in 19 years will focus on minor diplomatic issues. Israel and the Soviet Union will then receive each other's delegations for visits that may last several months...
...spark for a settlement came, surprisingly, from Iran. On the morning of Aug. 2, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh approached Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Saudi Arabian counterpart. The two men talked for about 90 minutes in Yamani's suite, which had a sweeping view of Lake Geneva. Since OPEC members were unwilling to make long-term promises to limit their oil production, Aqazadeh reasoned, Why not try an interim measure? He suggested a temporary return to the group's 1984 quota of some 16 million...
...terms of ideological trends and political tidings, the Aug. 12 Democratic primary in Georgia's Fifth Congressional District means little. Its significance far transcends such things. It is about friendships and loyalties, history and change. It is about the ambitions of two men with very different backgrounds and styles who had -- and still have -- an important vision in common. It is about the coming of age of a movement, one that Bond and Lewis helped found 25 years ago, which sought for blacks the right to participate fully in the political process...
...just before the expressionist revival of the '80s took hold. Recent years have seen major shows of such expressionist masters as Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann, and now the 100th anniversary of O.K.'s birth is marked by a retrospective at London's Tate Gallery. (The exhibition runs through Aug. 10, and will go to Zurich in the fall and New York City in the winter.) Comprising 241 paintings and drawings, with prints and assorted memorabilia, this will be remembered as the definitive Kokoschka show. The man it reveals, in his waxing and waning powers, his conflicts, insights and gifts...
Nonetheless, the Thatcher government faces a meeting of the Commonwealth on Aug. 2, at which Britain is likely to find itself a minority of one on the subject of sanctions. Last month, after a visit to South Africa, some members of the Commonwealth's Eminent Persons Group declared that the worsening situation made sanctions a necessity. At least one Commonwealth leader, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, has threatened to pull his country out of the organization unless Britain adopts a firmer policy on the South African issue. So last week the British government took the symbolic step of inviting Oliver...