Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family things. Relatives in the third-floor guest rooms. Holding hands around the dinner table as the President calls on someone to ask the blessing. Leisurely Saturday lunches at poolside with all the children. "You are kind of isolated from other people here," Rosalynn explains. "It draws the family closer. You're all in this situation together...
...would like to look at it in this way." More ominous was Assad' s general rejection of the other suggestions that Vance brought. When asked if the American's visit had advanced peace the Syrian replied: "Not necessarily There are no new data that make us closer to Geneva than we were two days ago " Insisting that the fate of the Palestinians is the"mother question," Assad refused to budge from his long-standing demand that the P.L.O. be included at Geneva. Although he refused to rule out a Geneva conference for this year. Assad's general...
...other subjects. The once sternly liberal and generally predictable editorial page has brightened since its editor?and Sulzberger's cousin?John Oakes, 64, was made a senior editor last January. The new oracle-in-chief, Max Frankel, 47, a former Washington bureau chief, has moved editorial policy a little closer to Sulzberger's own middle-of-the-road pragmatism and initiated a number of features, including "Topics," a collection of short and sometimes snappy commentaries. Frankel (who reports directly to Publisher Sulzberger) has also expanded the range of subject matter and sharpened the bite of opinion on the page, though...
...sharply assails some repressive countries, but he goes easier on those that the U.S. considers vital to its own interests. Chile is excoriated, but little is said about the Shah of Iran's heavy-handed rule. Moreover, much of Carter's policy appears contradictory. He wants to develop better, closer relations with Third World countries, yet, if he were to be honest and consistent, he would chastise and penalize most of them for their human rights abuses. He wants to ban the sale of conventional arms to a country if the purchase would mean introducing new technology into a region...
...Egyptians are convinced that Gaddafi was plotting with Addis Ababa to upset the government of Somalia's President Muhammad Siad Barre, who is edging away from his longtime dependence on Moscow as the Soviets move even closer to his archenemies, the Ethiopians. Heavy fighting has broken out between the two countries. The Western Somali Liberation Front, which is supported by Barre, claims to have killed at least 1,000 Ethiopians in savage battles in Bale province. The Somalis say that they have shot down three Ethiopian jets and a transport plane carrying Ethiopian paratroopers over Somali territory. The Ethiopians...