Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israeli Defense Chief Ezer Weizman, the Cabinet minister who greeted his returning boss Menachem Begin in Jerusalem with a widely publicized call for the formation of a "national peace government," has a well-deserved reputation for speaking his mind. So much so that when he was chief of operations for the Israeli forces in the late 1960s, he was told by Moshe Dayan, then Defense Minister, that he would never become chief of staff. "Too rash, naughty, and always shooting from the hip," said Dayan...
...want? I am only responsible for Israel's security, not its sanity." Early in March, when he was in Washington negotiating yet another big Israeli request for U.S. arms ($13.5 billion worth over the next nine years), he got into a widely reported transoceanic squabble with his boss; he told Begin that he would resign if Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon was allowed to proceed with work on some new settlements on the West Bank against his own orders. Begin agreed to stop the work, but later grumbled to some aides that the many warriors in his Cabinet (Weizman, Sharon...
...France's biggest trade unions, who had also been invited. They included André Bergeron of the 850,000-member Force Ouvrière and Edmond Maire, chief of the Socialist-leaning C.F.D.T., the 805,000-member Democratic Labor Confederation. This week Georges Séguy, the powerful boss of the 2.4 million-member C.G.T., is scheduled to make an unprecedented visit to Giscard...
...Communists and Socialists characteristically attributed their shortfall not to Giscard, but to one another. Communist Party Boss Georges Marchais claimed that the left's score would have been higher had the Socialists agreed to Communist proposals for updating the left's Common Program, including a sweeping nationalization of industry. Mitterrand offered his own explanation for the poor showing: "The Communist Party, acting in its own partisan interests, had launched an unjust and inopportune polemical attack on the Socialists that broke the dynamism of the union of the left...
...present anxious climate in Washington about anything concerning ethics. Once upon a very recent time, Miller's nomination would have been approved with only perfunctory debate, if that. But the Senate is still smarting from justified criticism of its overly hasty confirmation of Bert Lance as Budget boss, and business has been tarred by the international bribery practiced by Lockheed and other corporations. Thus when Miller first appeared before the Senate Banking Committee in late January, the Senators took seriously Proxmire's allegation that Textron had resorted to bribery in Iran, and recessed the hearings pending an investigation...