Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, the final outcome remained uncertain as the two principal players repeatedly thought they had an agreement, only to find that the other had failed to deliver what had been expected. In the end, it was the persistent middleman efforts by Swedish diplomats that helped close the deal.
After flying back to Tunis to consult with his aides on the weekend before his Geneva address, Arafat finally rejected advice from some Palestinians that he give up on the U.S. until Shultz was gone. That, Arafat decided, would stall the promising P.L.O. peace drive too long and ruin his...
There is no guarantee that a "substantive dialogue" between the U.S. and the P.L.O. can work a miracle where all past efforts have failed. And there is still reason to doubt Arafat's Christmas conversion from gunslinger to peacemaker. No one knows if he can deliver. No one knows what...
At last year's Washington summit, Akhromeyev used an old Russian (and American) saying with National Security Adviser Colin Powell: "Watch what we do, not what we say." Western skeptics use the same phrase in warning of the dangers of being seduced by Gorbachev. The criticism that he should be...
The fantasy Marlow is, remember, a singing detective. As he did in Pennies from Heaven, Potter scatters period songs to make ironic points. A quartet of doctors turns Fred Waring's Dry Bones into a sardonic production number; The Teddy Bears' Picnic plays over memories of a forest seduction. "No...