Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ambassador Andrew Young thoughtlessly equated U.S. treatment of civil rights activists with the Soviet Union's persecution of its dissidents, he was openly reprimanded by Carter. Similarly, in the wake of the Bourne episode, the President sternly lectured his staff that they would be fired if they broke the law by smoking marijuana or sniffing cocaine. Rafshoon has told Carter, who tends to be extremely loyal to his staff, that it is unwise to keep aides who are not performing well...
Diplomatic relations alone had been resumed in 1972 on the condition that the treaty be signed in the near future. But negotiations soon broke down when the Chinese insisted on an "anti-hegemony" clause, which would have committed Japan to side with China in the event of a Sino-Soviet conflict. The Russians, meanwhile, launched a campaign of their own to keep Japan from signing the treaty...
...summer draws to a close, there are signs that more serious films could soon end the happy-movie trend. Woody Allen's first try at straight drama, Interiors, broke the house record for its first week in New York. That could be a sign of things to come, or may simply reflect the loyalty of Woody's fans. Even Paramount, which has made the most money from escape flicks this summer, is pinning its fall hopes on Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, a bleak story about migrant farm workers in Texas...
...reluctance to put forth a plan of its own, which Cairo thinks would serve to pressure Israel into some concessions. The most important factor, however, is believed to be a new Saudi Arabian campaign for Arab unity, aimed at reconciling Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, who broke with Egypt over Sadat's visit to Jerusalem last November...
...January, when an impatient Sadat abruptly broke off the political talks in Jerusalem, the promise of a sudden peace was dispelled. Gone too, so far as anyone knows, were the secret negotiations that had contributed so much to the only serious peace initiative between Arabs and Israelis in a long time...