Word: cordially
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...contrast to that cordial support, Vance's Paris stopover was marked by a certain coolness. The Secretary of State, in fact, was still so angry over France's scuttling of the planned five-party talks that he did not even include Paris on his itinerary until the last minute. On the eve of Vance's arrival, and implicitly with his approval, U.S. Ambassador to Paris Arthur Hartman blasted the French position in a tough speech that urged Europe "not to forget what side...
...Graduate School of Education would also be unlikely to associate themselves with the HIID. Its dean, Paul N. Ylvisaker, who is one of the four deans on the HIID governing board, has also publicly expressed his opposition. The relationship between the HIID and the Ed School has been cordial, "but could stand great improvement," according to one HIID staffer. Harberger's appointment would torpedo closer ties...
...crisis began last Sunday, at a time when relations between the U.S. and Iran were, in the words of former Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, "lukewarm but improving." Only three days earlier, Prime Minister Bazargan had held a cordial 90-minute meeting with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in Algiers, where both men were attending the 25th anniversary celebration of the start of the Algerian war of independence from France. The Iranians had long since resumed U.S. oil shipments, which had been disrupted by strikes and fighting earlier in the year. The National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) is now selling about...
Jackson was hardly fazed by the criticism. Continuing to defend the P.L.O. as "a government in exile," he met Jordan in Chicago, and Jordan said afterward that "we agreed to disagree without being disagreeable." Others on Jackson's side were less cordial. The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a onetime aide to Martin Luther King Jr., charged that Jordan had succumbed to "the plantation syndrome." The Rev. William Augustus Jones, president of the Progessive National Baptist Convention, sneered that the Jordan-Hooks statements proved that the Urban League and N.A.A.C.P. operate under "financial constraints imposed... by their white members...
Connally is a restless man, quick to size up a situation and quick to grow bored with it. He is compulsive and meticulous, prone to polish his shiny shoes with a tissue or to straighten pictures on the wall. Despite an easy and cordial manner, he has a strong sense of privacy, always keeping a certain distance. "I pick my friends carefully," he says, "watching them for a long time before I commit. I'm aloof, I know that. I have very few close friends." Connally's temper is sharp, his sense of loyalty demanding. He has barely spoken...