Word: bitter
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...Reagan Administration's policy of "constructive engagement" toward South Africa, however, has touched off bitter and growing controversy. The policy aims at encouraging the white South African government to ease its oppressive racial policies by behind-the-scenes pressure rather than public denunciation. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Frank Wisner claims some success; he notes that "South Africa and black Africa are talking to each other" and sees some easing of apartheid within South Africa. But the country has been racked by black protests, backed up by demonstrations in the U.S. American liberals and some South African blacks charge that...
...soothing dose of diplomacy for a strife-torn territory--and an antidote to criticism at home. French President Francois Mitterrand last week made a sudden visit to the French Pacific-island territory of New Caledonia, where at least 18 people have been killed since November in an increasingly bitter struggle over independence. After announcing the trip in a nationally televised interview, Mitterrand said he was going to the troubled territory to "express what I believe to be reason" and to show support for French Special Envoy Edgard Pisani, author of a controversial independence plan for the islands...
...should be under any illusions that such a policy will likely bring success. The Chinese-Vietnamese enmity may well be too bitter for either to allow the other to save face. The Vietnamese may be too arrogant to agree on reasonable terms with the United States. In the same way, the American bipolar view of the world could blind us to the possibility that the Vietnamese might be amenable to an agreement. And if no way can be found to minimize the influence of the Khmer Rouge forces, it seems to make little sense to ask the Vietnamese troops...
Pugnacious New York Daily News Columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote several bitter columns accusing the white Goetz and his supporters of racism. As Cabey's condition worsened, Breslin wrote, "Those who thought it was fine for Goetz to shoot a black in the back, even if it paralyzed him for life, now conceivably could be asked to raise their cheers for death." But much black opinion has come down on Goetz's side. Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, called Goetz "the avenger for all of us" and offered to raise defense money. "Some black man ought...
...errant missile's flight was the degree to which, on the eve of U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks in Geneva, governments played down the incident. At first the Soviet Union made no comment. In neutral Finland, where soldiers scoured the border area by helicopter and snowmobile in the bitter cold, officials quietly checked with Moscow to see what had happened. President Mauno Koivisto declared in a New Year's message that cruise missiles were causing "insecurity" in Scandinavia and called on both NATO and the Warsaw Pact to accept a ban on such weapons in northern Europe. But his remarks...