Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been long expected, yet it still came as a shock that reverberated through the U.S. labor movement. After 24 embattled years as president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany, 85 and ailing, announced last week that he would retire in November. When AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland broke the news to the members of the federation's executive council, they sat in stunned silence...
...regional influentials," with an increasingly activist foreign policy. Last spring Mexico led the opposition that defeated a U.S. plan for an inter-American peace-keeping force to intervene in the uprising against Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza Debayle; instead of supporting Washington's effort to find a compromise solution, Mexico broke relations with the dictator and recognized the revolutionary junta that soon overthrew...
When a European director makes a film in English, the result is almost always disaster: Truffaut, Antonioni, Bergman, Visconti, Wertmuller have all come to grief when straying from their mother tongues. But Bertolucci, who once broke down the limits of propriety in Last Tango in Paris, has now crashed through the language barrier as well. With the crucial collaboration of Jill Clayburgh, he has made a movie in English without sacrificing any artistic integrity. Indeed, Luna may be his most controlled and personal film to date...
...idea of going for broke: Perhaps we should combine an attack on the Cambodian sanctuaries with resumption of the bombing of North Viet Nam as well as mining Haiphong? The opposition would be equally hysterical either way. I replied that we had enough on our plate; we would not be able to sustain such a gamble...
...indirectly, elliptically, by methods designed to exhaust rather than to clarify, constantly needling but never addressing the real issue." On the third day of meetings, the Vietnamese presented Kissinger with 23 changes, some major, in the draft peace treaty; later that figure would triple, to 69. Finally the talks broke down completely as Thieu, between tears of rage, accused the Americans of having "connived" to sell him out. "Obviously the negotiations could not continue without his agreement," writes Kissinger. Yet "turning on Thieu would be incompatible with our sacrifice, "he adds. Further, "we had to make Hanoi understand it would...