Word: directionality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chile included with-drawal of all foreign aid except to the military, wholesale cuts in World Bank, Export-Import Bank, and private sector bank loans and credits to Chile, payment of millions of CIA dollars to finance anti-Allende demonstrations and mouth-pieces such as El Mercurio, and direct CIA encouragement for the coup. U.S. multinational corporations such as ITI also funded anti-Allende subversion, although ITT executives have avoided jail because the U.S. government says too many "national security secrets" would come out in a trial...
...very high-risk thing for me politically." Indeed, no previous American President has assumed such a direct personal responsibility for resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute, which has erupted in four wars and taken 39,000 lives in the past three decades...
...Said one U.S. diplomat: "They can be awfully antagonistic when they're alone together. They've talked without note takers and there's been tremendous confusion and misunderstanding later about what was said and who meant what. We hope we can avoid a repeat of this by channeling all direct contact through Carter." One problem is that while Carter is fond of Sadat, he does not much like Begin, whom, he feels, has been less than candid...
Carter will offer direct U.S. guarantees only reluctantly?and, preferably at the end of the bargaining process, in order to conclude a deal. He is in no rush to dispatch G.I.s to patrol a truce, a step that has no certainty of congressional backing. Potential opposition on Capitol Hill, moreover, is not the only limitation on what Carter can propose at the summit. If he presses Begin too hard, he runs the political risk of alienating influential American
...director stumbled over a No Parking sign and broke both his elbows. Not one to let so minor an inconvenience as arm-length casts deter him, Bertolucci was back on the set in two weeks, using a long wooden holder for his view finder. "When I started to direct this film," he said, "I already had a heavy responsibility as director and co-author of the screenplay, and had a part in the production of the film. Now it's an even heavier responsibility with the casts...