Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newer female counterpart group, made up of women from Kirkland and Eliot Houses, was founded to have "a women's club so that we can sit around and drink like men," says Kirsten Shirley '85, a charter member and original founder of LEWD...
...Wiliiamsburg, George Washington nurtured his friendships with Virginia's revolutionary leaders, and took military commissions that sent him to the frontier in the French and Indian War. Did Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, beset by European complaints about burgeoning U.S. deficits, know that his earliest counterpart, Alexander Hamilton, commanded the bayonet attack on the British redoubts at Yorktown, only 13 miles from Wiliiamsburg, in the decisive battle of the Revolution...
...Khalde and three hours later in a community cultural center in the Israeli border town of Qiryat Shemona, were aptly symbolic. In the Khalde ceremony, Lebanese Negotiator Antoine Fattal held his chin in knit fingers, and his eyes were downcast. He applauded politely but without enthusiasm when his Israeli counterpart, David Kimche, made a brief speech praising the agreement that was about to be signed. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel summed up his countrymen's attitude when he later declared, "Lebanon is not holding celebrations today. Lebanon's real feast will come on the day the external forces leave...
...want them to be moving out, not in." In the meantime, the State Department issued a list of statements in which Syria had promised to get out of Lebanon as soon as the Israelis did. On Feb. 14, for example, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam told his French counterpart, Claude Cheysson, that "Syria would withdraw its forces from Lebanon if the Israelis withdrew their troops." U.S. diplomats note that Syrian officials have repeatedly said the same thing to them in private...
After last week's outburst, both nations were eyeing each other more warily. Iranian authorities nervously tried to squelch rumors that the Soviet embassy in Tehran would be seized, as its U.S. counterpart had been in November 1979. The Soviet party newspaper Pravda vigorously asserted that the Soviet people "resolutely reject" the charges against the Tudeh. The article went on to argue, speciously, that the Tudeh was unlikely to know any important secrets and, disingenuously, that the U.S. had instigated the sudden crackdown...