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Most U.S. analysts played down the significance of reports that the Syrians and, by implication, the Soviets were preparing for war. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "We think it's bluster and bluff to scare the hell out of Lebanon not to ratify the agreement with Israel, no more than that." A Western diplomat in Moscow noted that there was no sign that the Soviets had evacuated any dependents from Damascus. That, he added, was "the important thing...
Kohl conveyed the Europeans' concern to Reagan during three hours of meetings that included a White House lunch. The bluff West German Chancellor made much the same point over separate dinner sessions with Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Among other things, Kohl stressed that the upcoming summit should deal with more global issues, such as high international interest rates and the dangers of protectionism. Said Kohl: "Williamsburg can be both a realistic summit and a signal of optimism to the world...
...bluff worked. And bluff it was. Abandoning the EMS for isolationism would have been as close to collective suicide as France could engineer. Delors, a free trader, realized this. Going its own way in the delicate world of European trade would only ravage the franc and jolt France's trading posture into chaotic disrepute. It would be costly, as well. Artificially propping up its currency would deplete already dwindling French foreign reserves. The franc would turn soft; the French economy would strangle itself...
...wasn't unlike Heckler to go with the flow." Resnek says. "Waffling was the basis of her career...she was interested in her political survival." Heckler managed to appear to be against the budget, while actually helping to pass it--that is, until Barney Frank called her bluff. As Pierce says, "Heckler's strategy was always something like 'for my own survival I will adopt this position for a while and drop it when people forget about it. 'But with unemployment as high as it is in Fall River, people don't forget about Ergonomics." He adds, "Margaret was straddling...
...plotline, though as irrelevant as usual t the rest of the proceedings, goes basically as follows. Heroine Angela Mercy's adlun Issacs) arrives in Collier Bluff to claim the untapped mind. The Patco Strike"--that belonged to her late her late father, Evan But Yuvantsum (Michael Rapposelli)--who incidentally something like A. Barilett Giamstti. Angela and Gustave acquire allies for her, the wimpy hotel proprietor Heat A. Nytheguy (John Stimpson) and heroic intervener Dwight Turheto. (Brooks Whitehouse): for him, mistress Helen Highwater (Terry, Ray, Robinson, town marshal Annie Gitchergun (Rick Reynold) Festus Gunnsinawest (Jonathan Isham). and old flame Micheal Loud...