Word: cautious
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Cyrus Vance flew off to the Middle East again last week. This time, the ever cautious Secretary of State conceded that his chances of achieving anything substantial were almost nil. Reason: the peace process, so carefully nurtured by the U.S., is one step short of total breakdown. Last week Egyptian President Anwar Sadat informed State Department Troubleshooter Alfred Atherton Jr. that Egypt would not participate in any new talks until Israel agreed to return the occupied territories. Meeting Vance at the Tel Aviv Airport, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan sounded an encouraging note when he said: "In order...
...efforts of rightists such as Archbishop Lefebvre to erode the reforms he began. Perhaps historians will manage to forget all this, and still judge Paul a conservative, a traditionalist unwilling to grasp the changing currents in the world of faith. More likely, however, they will see him as a cautious man, a man dedicated to change but unwilling, or unable, to let the great reforms he fostered grow out of control, to tear apart an already deeply divided Church...
...planned even before the summit: put in a stimulus plan. It calls for pumping $7 billion into the West German economy, largely through tax cuts, and should make his country a larger buyer of imports. Britain's James Callaghan, who faces elections in the fall, was the most cautious. He pledged only to continue his present policy of expanding output by a modest 1 % while keeping up the fight against inflation, now down to 7.4% from 27% four years ago. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing promised to pep up the French economy a bit by more...
Part of the problem has been a case of bad personal chemistry between the aging, cautious leaders in the Kremlin and the brash, evangelistic and sometimes naive Georgians in the White House. Comfortable with the classically quiet negotiating style of Kissinger, the Russians were offended by Carter's early attempt to conduct a more open diplomacy. They were even angrier when Carter proposed that SALT II effect deep cuts in strategic arsenals; to Moscow, this seemed an attempt to rewrite an agreement that had been negotiated with Ford...
Last week Texaco issued a cautious statement suggesting that it might be close to a find at 15,000 ft. in a Baltimore Canyon test site that it shares with several partners, including Getty Oil, Sun Oil and Allied Chemical. The company stressed that no firm conclusions could be drawn from its samples, but the mere hint of a strike sent Texaco's stock up 2½ points...