Word: discordances
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...Warsaw Pact as solid as it seems? As the seven members of the East bloc military alliance prepare to renew their ties, which formally expire in May, there are signs of discord simmering beneath the pact's outward unity. One such signal flashed last week when East Germany's Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland prominently reprinted remarks by a senior Hungarian official that seemed to question Moscow's right to meddle in the internal affairs of its allies...
...settle the matter. Crèche critics, insisting that many of the displays still represent unlawful government sponsorship of church activity, are seeking to severely limit the court's ruling. As a result, the jingle bells of the season once again were interrupted by the jangle of legal discord. Items...
...gang will all be there when Secretary of State George Shultz's jet heads for Geneva next month, but it is most unlikely to unite in a chorus of Hail, Hail! Instead, the flight may ring with the same discord that fills Washington whenever the subject turns to arms control, since chiefs of all the warring factions will be thrown together. One voice, however, is likely to stand out amid the babble. Paul Nitze, appointed last week by President Reagan as top negotiator and senior adviser to Shultz on arms control, will be the only U.S. official actually sitting...
That was while the club was dropping a team-record 22 losses and while discord ran rampant every time the Harvard squad stepped on the court...
Amid the small signs of accommodation, there was one clanging note of discord last week. Speaking at a Tel Aviv University symposium commemorating the sixth anniversary of the Camp David accords, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis criticized his bosses' efforts in the Middle East. Commenting on the Reagan Administration's September 1982 peace plan, Lewis called the timing of the proposal "abysmal, the tactics of presentation worse, and the outcome...