Word: cordiality
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...left, the Communists, who were outlawed by the West German Supreme Court in 1956, have come back out in the open. They skirted the constitutional prohibition by pledging to abide by democratic precepts. Even so, their reception in West Germany was hardly cordial. Nightriders pumped seven slugs into the party's new headquarters in Bonn, hitting no one. The leaders of the Grand Coalition could only be dismayed at the timing of the Communists' reappearance...
...control. Among other things, he persuaded Humphrey to release any delegates bound to him by the unit rule, a gesture that cost him only an estimated 40-50 delegate votes but earned him considerable good will. O'Brien is the only major Democratic figure who has direct and cordial relations with all segments of the party-the partisans of Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson and McCarthy-and one of the few who might persuade leaders of the embittered factions to unite, however uncomfortably, for the November election. Humphrey's first official move toward party harmony, O'Brien argues, must...
...organ for some large trade union. In its first issues, it reported the first New York-Moscow air link, the threatening steel strike, the tussle over the poverty program. An editorial had some kind words for the U.S.: "The recent increase in activity in Washington and Moscow toward more cordial relations should be welcomed by all Americans." And some sharp words for "selfstyled Leftists who denounce any step toward a detente as a 'betrayal...
...quiet but forceful style developed during a 35-year political career. He drew up an emergency program for tornado relief, stopped all construction of state buildings to fight an estimated $170,500,000 revenue shortage, helped launch a campaign to fight crime, poverty and urban blight, and fashioned such cordial ties with the state senate that its Republican majority leader praised Shapiro's "practical, realistic way of handling things...
Independent Course. After three years in office, Ceauşescu feels secure enough in his position to persist in his independent course while simultaneously moving toward more liberalization in Rumania's tightly controlled society. Defying Kremlin directives, Rumania has maintained cordial relations with both China and Israel, in Soviet eyes the Middle East aggressor. Recently, Rumania balked at joining fellow Warsaw Pact members in signing the Moscow-Washington nuclear-proliferation draft treaty, arguing that it failed to protect small nations from nuclear blackmail by larger powers...