Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz flew to Washington to meet President Nixon and State Department officials. They hacked out an "agreement in principle" to hold the lease open while talk continues. The airbases are no longer essential, but Rota is an important base for Polaris submarines. Bargaining broke down with Spain wanting $700 million in military aid and the U.S. offering $140 million. Lately, however, the gap has narrowed. Spain is believed to be asking near $300 million, the U.S. going nearer $200 million. Nixon would like to keep the bases. And naturally, the Franco regime likes both...
What, Canada's Prime Minister was asked, did he want to see most in Washington? "The sun," he replied. He got his wish. Walking through the White House Rose Garden last week, he looked up as the sun broke through the mist and a mockingbird burst into song from the topmost branch of a budding magnolia tree...
...talks broke down, however, over Jerusalem. Hussein offered Israel some rights in the Jordanian part of the city-including access to the Wailing Wall-and talked of internationalization of the city as a possible alternative. Israel, of course, has formally annexed Arab Jerusalem and does not want to relinquish its hold. In any further Arab-Israeli negotiations, it seemed increasingly obvious that Jerusalem may prove the major sticking point...
...Viet Nam, where he flew in air strikes against the Viet Cong, shared trenches with U.S. infantrymen and concluded: "More than ever I am convinced that Britain must stand behind the U.S. in Viet Nam." With fortunate timing, he arrived in Israel just before the war with the Arabs broke out in 1967 and he covered it for the London Evening News. He also got a wire from his father, Randolph: SUGGEST WE DO JOINT RUSH BOOK. WHAT DO YOU SAY? Their book, The Six Day War, sold 170,000 copies in Britain, even though it was needlessly dull...
...outcome, but it makes for a delicate balance in individual games. In one of Montreal's single goal victories over St. Louis last year, Canadien goalie Gump Worsley deflected a sure St. Louis score with the wrong end of his stick after slippling in front of the net and broke St. Louis' rally late in the game...