Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute had become one of the most serious crises in the history of the relations between the U.S. and its allies. Tensions on both sides, which have been mounting for months, last week broke into the open, to the great dismay of allied capitals and the obvious delight of Moscow. If not brought rapidly under control, the growing storms could weaken the very ties that have enabled the leading nations of the free world to act in concert on security issues since the end of World War II. A major Soviet goal in the past three decades has been...
What touched off the immediate uproar was the Carter Administration's open dismay over what it regards as the lack of backing by the allies for Washington's responses to the twin crises of the American hostages in Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In the long run, the Afghan crisis is almost certain to be the more difficult for the allies to confront with a common policy. While the U.S. will continue pushing for relatively tough countermoves, its partners will hesitate, feeling that the issue is peripheral to their own security. What is more, the allies doubt that...
...great extent, American Jewish criticisms of Begin have been blunted by dismay over the Carter Administration's fumbling Middle East policies, especially the controversial snafu over the United Nations vote. "Carter reacted outrageously," charges Mann. "He practically gave the West Bank to the Palestinians." Explains U.C.L.A. Political Scientist Steven Spiegel: "Carter has deflected some of the criticism from Begin. The Administration has been particularly adept at taking actions that directly challenge Israel." As Carter's hasty retreat on the U.N. vote shows, Washington policymakers are acutely sensitive to such discontent in this election year, when Jewish votes...
...Howard Baker would have had some chance to emerge as the nominee in a backstage contest dominated by party brokers-but when Ford did temporarily offer himself, hardly any of those very leaders were willing at that late date to enlist publicly in his cause. Baker discovered to his dismay that the respect he has earned among his Republican colleagues in the Senate as their minority leader did not translate into wider support among Republican primary voters...
...powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from large estates, many held by absentee landowners; the confiscated properties would be turned into state-run rural cooperatives. At the same time, a series...