Word: cores
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Eschewing the pinstripe ambiguities of the career professional, Habib is renowned for his straightforward talk and capacity to cut through to the basics. "He gets to the core of issues quickly," says one associate, "and then doesn't leave them till they're settled." But his greatest strength, says another, is that "he knows when to use clout and when to listen." For instance, when talking to Menachem Begin, who tends to obscure issues with lengthy digressions, Habib will tenaciously steer the conversation back to the central topic. "He doesn't take opening positions too seriously...
...entirely to blame for the situation. The divisions in the N.A.A.C.P. reflect the weakness of the civil rights movement in general. Many of the groups that were led by pioneers of the movement-Martin Luther King's S.C.L.C., Stokely Carmichael's S.N.C.C., James Farmer's CORE-either exist no longer or are ineffective splinter groups. Despite its size and visibility, the N.A.A.C.P. is losing out as a focus of black organizational efforts to such specialized groups as the National Association of Black Accountants and the National Association of Minority County Officials...
Haider (Alan Howard) is a kind of academic Walter Mitty. But unlike Thurber's daydreamer, Haider has fantasies of failure, doubt and dread. Something dreadful does actually happen to him, and the question-and-answer core of the late British playwright C.P. Taylor's play is how and why. How does a seemingly decent, liberal-minded man like Haider, who lectures on the German classics at the University of Frankfurt, and whose best friend Maurice (Joe Melia) is a Jewish psychoanalyst, wage a retreat from conscience that finds him at Auschwitz as the right-hand man of Adolf...
...Lebanon, the Israelis bought nothing but breathing space by their assault. They sought to destroy the military core of the P.L.O., and they may succeed. But the Israeli invasion is also likely to embolden the most militant factions of the P.L.O. Instead of feeling quashed, they may now have been provided with a new rationale for terrorism. Nor will an Israeli victory in Lebanon settle the issue of a place for the Palestinians to live. The U.S. position is not greatly enhanced by all this either. It has the perennial task of proving to the Arab states that...
...late in the week, the surviving core of the Palestinian guerrilla army was completely surrounded in West Beirut. Phalangist guides directed Israeli armor through the streets of East Beirut, not far from the capital's so-called Green Line dividing the Christian and Muslim sectors. Israeli gunboats patrolled the port and coastline, thwarting nearly all naval traffic. To the south, invasion troops occupied a wide arc, stretching from the Khalde road junction into Beirut's surrounding hills, merging with Phalangist forces and blocking any escape...