Word: coax
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...tente. To coax some movement toward peace, Sadat made one of his swift, dramatic decisions. He chose to attack Israel. His goal was to score a limited victory along the Suez Canal. This, he reasoned, would shore up Arab morale, demonstrate that ultimately no military solution was possible in the Arab-Israeli struggle, and get the peace process started. By the end of the 18-day war the Egyptian army had taken a battering from the Israelis, whose forces west of the Suez were within 45 miles of Cairo, and allied Syrian forces to the north had been utterly routed...
...world. German history-always the dark backdrop when terrorism is discussed-has periodically involved a volatile mixture of romanticism and brutality. Jillian Becker, author of a flamboyant history of the radical Baader-Meinhof gang, calls the terrorists "Hitler's children." Others fear that their violence will coax fascism up from the rubble where it was buried 30 years ago. After the dramatic German rescue of hijacked Lufthansa passengers at Mogadishu two months ago, a Dutch diplomat's mind wandered back uneasily to the abyss: "You can't help getting the shivers at the precision with which...
...also happy? Yes and no. He finds that adulation is a kind of prison, his young fans' love not far removed from hostility. When he was shooting Saturday Night in Brooklyn, the teen-agers would try to coax him out of his trailer as they might a caged dog-by rocking it back and forth...
...committee heard from a Minneapolis police officer who had come to Manhattan to coax young Midwest prostitutes to return to their parents or to "safe houses," where they would be protected from their pimps. The officer had failed-largely because publicity about his visit took the girls temporarily off the streets-but he and a few of his previously liberated young streetwalkers told harrowing stories. Two examples...
What can be done? A simple solution would be to coax North Carolina and Virginia, the two biggest cigarette producers, into raising their per-pack taxes, thus eliminating the potential for profit. But that is not likely to happen; officials in those states think the problem is not that their taxes are too low but that taxes in Northern states are absurdly high. Says North Carolina Attorney General Rufus Edmisten: "I cannot justify spending countless hours looking for cigarette bootleggers who are not in violation of any of North Carolina's statutes." He is quite correct that they...