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Marcos kept a low profile during the days following Aquino's death. One of his main activities, however, was to act as host at a dinner, to the dismay of U.S. officials, for visiting Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, and to declare to his guest that "unfortunately you came at this dark hour, but I think we will get over it." Marcos reiterated his conviction that the only people who had gained from Aquino's assassination were "local Communists...
Since then, to Washington's dismay, the West German government has caused confusion in Western ranks by hinting that it is interested in the revival of a compromise plan that U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli Kvitsinsky worked out during a stroll in the Jura Mountains above Geneva last summer. The walk-in-the-woods proposal, as it came to be called, was disavowed by Washington and Moscow. But West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher seemed to resurrect it last month when he told a reporter during a visit to Bulgaria that "the closer...
...Israel. When Iraq invaded Iran, the Tehran regime urgently needed U.S. supplies. Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski confirmed in his recently published memoirs that the Carter Administration clandestinely offered to supply spare parts to Iran in return for the hostages' freedom. "We learned, much to our dismay," he wrote, "that the Israelis had been secretly supplying American spare parts to the Iranians, without much concern for the negative impact this was having on our leverage with the Iranians on the hostage issue...
Only a Harvard grad could find "something wrong" with his school setting a league record for most championships won in one year. Only a Crimson alum could greet with dismay the news that during the 1982-83 school year, his team reached the final game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ice hockey championship...
...similar task force early last year under the direction of J. Peter Grace, 70, chairman of the conglomerate W.R. Grace & Co. Last week the group made public its final batch of findings. Its pointed revelations of wasteful practices were greeted within the Administration with much of the awkward dismay a doomsayer might feel upon being told his prophecies are true...