Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...altitude was my biggest concern going into the meet, coach Robert "Pappy" Hunt said yesterday. "The girls started well--both were among the top 40 at the one-mile mark--but the thin air took its toll during the second and third miles...
...primary concern in the West about the Shah's newest crisis was the potential threat to Iran's control over the Persian Gulf, the funnel for much of the oil destined for Japan, Europe, Israel and the U.S. Iraq, which got the Shah to stop Iranian support for a rebellion of its Kurdish separatists in 1975, feared the revival of ethnic and tribal tensions in the region. Fearful that a successful move to topple the Shah would unsettle other monarchies in the area, Saudi Arabia's King Khalid called on Arab nations to give the Shah all possible support...
Nowhere was concern greater than in Washington. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, telephoned the Shah and told him that he had U.S. backing for whatever he did?in effect, giving him the go-ahead to call in the army. The Administration believes that the military government has given the Shah a temporary reprieve. General Azhari is regarded as an intelligent, sensible administrator and unquestionably loyal to the Shah. "This is not an independent military government," stressed one Administration aide. "It's the Shah's government...
...late last week, the Carter Administration was more pessimistic about the outcome of the Washington peace talks between Egypt and Israel than it had been since negotiations began more than a month ago. At the White House, according to one Administration official, there was now "a sort of gnawing concern" that the talks might actually fail. In Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gloomily remarked that he would not be astonished to see the negotiations break down...
...play things down." But what of the danger that approval of women priests would rupture the fragile ecumenical bridge that the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are building? Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan, the highest primate of the church and a proponent of women priests, sought to ease that concern by declaring of the Catholics: "I think they would welcome our lead." But in the end, the women were turned down. As Graham Leonard, bishop of Truro and leader of the conservative camp, summed it up: "I want women to be women...