Word: bunkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swept presidential suite of Panama City's Holiday Inn, overlooking a bay speckled with shrimp boats, the mood was clearly jubilant. Chief Panamanian Negotiator Romulo Escobar Bethancourt jumped to his feet and reached across the table to grasp the outstretched hands of U.S. Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz. With a smile that seemed as broad as the canal over which they had been arguing for many months, Escobar proclaimed: "This is good. Here are the people...
Linowitz joined Career Diplomat Bunker, 83, who had been in charge of negotiations since 1973. They made a formidable team that Latin America called "Hit 'em high, Hit 'em low." Linowitz kept pressing hard, talking fast, rarely letting up. "He works with all his heart and lungs," said his admiring adversary Escobar. More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises. He also defused arguments by occasionally dozing off?or seeming...
...points, President Carter disrupted negotiations by sounding off in public. In a speech last month, for example, he casually remarked that the U.S. might retain "partial sovereignty" over the canal even after 2000. Panamanians, who thought that issue had been settled, exploded in outrage until they were reassured by Bunker and Linowitz. "Well," noted a participant, "there isn't much we can do about loose language...
...convince others, Bunker and Linowitz have spent hundreds of hours on Capitol Hill briefing Senators and conducting seminars to explain the "justice and timeliness" of the treaty. Linowitz even had lunch with Reagan. "I don't think I persuaded him," admits the diplomat, "and I'm sure he didn't persuade me." The opposition to the pact, says Linowitz, "is not only one of emotionalism; it is one of great ignorance on the part of the American people." The treaty, he feels, "will indeed preserve those interests which are important...
...preternatural populist. Under a blond tuft of mustache, he sports the same smug smile for everyone, turning it off only when his sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...