Word: confrontive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile symptoms of the tense problems that Shultz will confront are multiplying. The most potentially explosive is in Lebanon, where the U.S. was trying to prevent a final Shootout between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas holed up in the wreckage of encircled West Beirut. At the direction of Haig, who stayed in office temporarily to manage the crisis, the Administration was pursuing a strategy that was at once complicated and somewhat contradictory. It was simultaneously urging Israel to avoid a final assault and pressing P.L.O. leaders to negotiate an agreement by which they and all their armed...
...Madrid will be able to manage the party, and the country, during the necessary period of belt tightening. In Washington, some State Department experts are optimistic that he can succeed. Says one Government official, summing up business and banking reactions: "He's the perfect guy to confront the business and economic problems." Whether De la Madrid can restore confidence in Mexico's shaken presidency is another question. De la Madrid says only: "I know that my entry into the government will not be easy." He will have six years to find out just how hard it will...
...very small group who make the whole neighborhood look like a racist community," says Marty Sack, director of the East End community center. "We don't want to sweep it under the carpet," says Frank Budryk, a member of the East Cambridge Planning Team "we want to confront...
While serving as Jimmy Carter's special Middle East ambassador in 1979-80, Sol Linowitz spent countless hours trying to fathom the complex personality of Menachem Begin. As President Reagan prepared to confront Begin on the invasion of Lebanon, TIME asked Linowitz for his views on dealing with the Israeli Prime Minister...
Skelton, the British translator of Cosima Wagner's Diaries, recounts all this with grace and a perhaps too benign indulgence. Since his story leaves off before Cosima's long widowhood (she died in 1930, at 93), he does not have to confront her in the decades when she reigned implacably over Bayreuth. He cites ample evidence of Wagner's more monstrous traits, which Cosima shared or abetted: egomania, antiSemitism, a devouring exploitativeness. Yet Skelton seems to take his tone from a remark of Cosima's, when the abandoned Bülow told her he forgave...