Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chuck Hamlin is a can-do type of guy. He is frank in an age of guardedness, blunt in an age of equivocation. "My life is an open book," he says, and his chapters on Harvard range from silly to profound. But you must understand one thing about Chuck Hamlin: he is proud, proud to "have turned myself around," proud to have served his country, proud of his grades, and above all proud to have made...
...have been in the making. Tragically, even the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty would be at risk, and with it a half-decade of diplomatic labor. Following the Israeli attack, in fact, Egyptian Foreign Minister Butros Ghali-despite Cairo's antagonism toward Damascus ever since Camp David-dispatched a blunt warning to Jerusalem: "In the event of an all-out military action, Arab solidarity will prevail over the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...
Since 1946 there has been a string of British spies: Alan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo for atomic secrets, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Blunt. All seemed too impeccably Establishment to be spies, and so did Hollis...
...also, according to speculation, had carried on a long-running affair with his secretary, whom he married in 1968 after his wife of 31 years divorced him. Could that affair have provided a basis for blackmail? That seemed unlikely in Britain's tolerant Establishment. Burgess, Maclean and Blunt were known to be homosexual; Philby had a reputation as a womanizer...
...money will be used to repair war damage, resettle refugees, develop agriculture and redistribute land. Despite continuing tribal warfare, Mugabe pledged to press ahead with Zimbabwe's reconstruction. "While they may not have been turned into plow shares," he said, "the swords of war have nonetheless been rendered blunt, and within our country we are determined to keep them that way." The only economic sour note for Mugabe was sounded in Pretoria, which announced last week that it would end its preferential trade agreements with Zimbabwe in a year...