Word: cordiality
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...surface, relations among the nearly 600 delegates to last week's symposium on the nuclear accident at Chernobyl were cordial, detached and scientific. After all, the Soviets had agreed to the extraordinary 62-nation conference, sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a spirit of international cooperation. Said Chief Soviet Delegate Valeri Legasov: "All our experts understood that the events that happened (at Chernobyl) concerned not just the Soviet Union but the whole world...
...company, suffering from falling sales of its Old Crow and Old Grand-Dad bourbons, was looking for something more up- to-date when one of its researchers came up with the idea while trimming peach trees in his backyard. With almost no advertising, the low-alcohol (48 proof) cordial took off faster than any other liquor in the industry's history, selling almost 1.4 million cases in the first half of 1986. More than 30 other brands of peach schnapps have now flooded the market. The popularity of the peach extends into the wine business. Riunite, the Italian wine brand...
Kadar has also managed to maintain cordial ties with the West. Says one Reagan Administration official: "Relations with Hungary are by far the best in the Soviet bloc. There are virtually no contentious issues...
Brown, who now runs a public relations and management-consulting firm in High Point, N.C., served as special assistant to President Nixon. Nonetheless, he still maintained cordial relations with Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King and Andrew Young, the former U.N. Ambassador. Brown has made several trips to South Africa, the latest in February as the leader of a fact- finding group that included black college presidents...
There are some obvious strategic advantages to maintaining a cordial relationship with South Africa, but if that country continues to act like an Eastern European nation, then the U.S. should treat it as one. Not only should this country forward the sanctions approved by the House, but diplomatic relations should be reduced to a minimum and the American government should work actively to build a consensus against South Africa as it did, with some success, against Libya and has consistently attempted to effect against the Soviet Union...