Word: bitter
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Peres has problems within his own ranks as well. He has already promised the Defense post to Yitzhak Rabin, his bitter rival and Israel's Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977. Rabin still enjoys strong support within Labor; if Peres does not deliver on his pledge, Rabin could succeed in scuttling a national unity agreement. In addition Mapam, a leftist party that holds six of Labor's 44 seats in the 120-member Knesset, has threatened to quit the Labor alignment if a Labor-Likud government is formed...
...that leads a couple to the in-vitro fertilization clinic, and the journey has been known to rock the soundest marriages. "If you want to illustrate your story on infertility, take a picture of a couple and tear it in half," says Cleveland Businessman James Popela, 36, speaking from bitter experience. "It is not just the pain and indignity of the medical tests and treatment," observes Betty Orlandino, who counsels infertile couples in Oak Park, Ill. "Infertility rips at the core of the couple's relationship; it affects sexuality, self-image and selfesteem. It stalls careers, devastates savings and damages...
...based collection of exiles who want to restore the Pahlavi monarchy, and a spokesman for the previously unheard-of Unit of Martyr Khalafi. No matter who was to blame for the blast, it was an indication that the five-year-old regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini still faces bitter opposition inside Iran...
...with History, an account of the President's first two years in office. Dallas, says Barrett, will be "something of a nostalgia trip. The first national convention I covered was in 1 964, when the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater in San Francisco; it was raucous in spirit and bitter in tone. Comparing '64 and '84, when a conservative President is headed for a serene coronation in Dallas, is quite a commentary on the country's political evolution...
...sovereign rights," meaning that each country should be able to choose its own population-control program, cropped up repeatedly, even in the statements of industrial nations friendly to the U.S., like Australia and West Germany. In the corridors, however, diplomatic façades gave way to resentful, at times bitter, comments. "The U.S. may be concerned about abortion," said Satpal Mittal, a delegate from India, where an estimated 15 million abortions are performed annually, "but it cannot impose its view on the free world." The U.S. attempt to advocate a capitalist model worldwide is unrealistic, some contended, because...