Word: bons
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Then, at a bon voyage press conference for Bush on Aug. 16, Reagan repeated his comment about hoping to set up an "official governmental relationship" between the U.S. and Taiwan. Peking officials received Bush frostily and demanded clarification of Reagan's remarks. Bush tried and failed to convince them that there would be no government relations "in the diplomatic sense" with Taiwan in a Reagan Administration. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Reagan undercut Bush by telling a reporter, "Um, I guess it's a yes," when asked if he still stood by his original Taiwan statement. As Bush...
...past 15 years have pounded a sense of urgent uniqueness into Americans. In fact, anyone who buys from OPEC and fails to feel some chill of reckoning down the line is a bon vivant worth spending an evening with. But Americans need to regain a longer perspective. The period from the end of World War II to the mid-'60s was not only historically abnormal; it was unprecedented and probably unrepeatable. The nation's gross national product went from $212.3 billion in 1945 to $688.1 billion in 1965. That single 20-year period has skewed the American sense...
...Henri le Bon...
Naipaul offers only one answer: countries must not look back too far and turn precolonial times into "le bon vieux temps de nos ancestres." This is the solution of General Mobutu in Zaire, a senseless one. Mobutu combines tradition and technology in a way that belongs to neither culture: African dances performed in a television studio, African art relegated to a sculpture niche in the wall of Mobutu's residence. Mobutu's "African nihilism" promises the flashy cars and gold wristwatches of Western technology while attacking their source...
...Chairman Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, 55, chief counsel for Venezuela's state oil company, is a bon vivant who loves Caribbean music but is also an eloquent spokesman for democracy. Son of a professional diplomat, Aguilar earned a law degree from McGill University in Canada and a doctorate in political science from Venezuela's Central University, where he taught civil law and was law school dean in the 1950s. He suffered a painful lesson in political repression in 1956 when he was imprisoned for opposing General Marcos Péréz Jiménez. After...