Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPIRITS must be high in the Soviet Union these days. Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the launching that made Sputnik I the first man-made object to orbit Earth. In America, broad-minded thinkers like Isaac Asimov took the occasion to reflect optimistically on space exploration as mankind's first step towards a broader vision--"a view that presents Earth and humanity as a single entity." But Asimov's idealism has not infected American military leaders, who now plan to make space yet another theater of operations in the modern superpower cold...
Begin said that many differences were not yet resolved, and that the basic disagreements were so broad as to require a few months of negotiation by technicians working full time five days a week. I then asked Sadat to respond. He said there was already a fundamental difference of opinion, even in these preliminary comments, about what we were to accomplish at Camp David. He stated that his peace initiative to Jerusalem had brought forth a new era. The era of war was coming to an end, he said. Sadat reiterated what he and I had agreed, that we must...
...know where to go from there. We had accomplished little except to name the difficult issues. Almost every discussion of any subject deteriorated into an unproductive argument, reopening old wounds. Under pressure, the Egyptian leader moved away from details and words and into the realm of principles and broad strategic concepts; feeling pressed, the Israeli leader invariably shifted to a discussion of minutiae or semantics, with an inclination to recapitulate ancient history or to resurrect an old argument...
...only thing that would succeed was a proposal that was patently fair, that did not violate Sadat's broad principles and that we could sell to the other Israelis. From daybreak Saturday, the entire American delegation bent to this task, and shortly after midnight the document was ready to be put into final form...
...after he had completed his exercise. He was always punctual, calm and self-assured; he was brief and to the point in discussions. He tried not to tell others anything he thought they already knew. Rarely dwelling on details or semamtics, he spelled out his positions in broad terms with emphasis on the strategic implications of decisions...