Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question had just been asked: Did he predict failure for the Jerusalem talks? As Jordan's King Hussein was about to answer, a door to his office in Amman's Basman Palace flew open and Abdul Hamid Sharaf, Chief of the Royal Court, burst in with a message. Scanning the note that had been handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation...
Nonetheless, the Communists protested that the alliance "threatened democracy" and "opened the door to the neo-fascists." Other critics of Soares charged that he had sacrificed his principles in an effort to keep his power. But the "once and future Prime Minister," as he is called in Lisbon, could reasonably argue that the alternative to a new Socialist-led coalition would be disaster. If President Eanes had decided to call for new elections, the country would not have had a working government for about six months. Reason: a census would be required first, in order to register newcomers...
Several explanations are possible. The competitive rivalry at the networks to get leaders like Sadat and Begin on camera probably inhibits too rude questioning of them. Or, since anchor people are no longer kept at the door or at the curbside but are invited in, deferred to and first-named by heads of state, they may feel themselves part of the diplomatic process, and may be fearful of derailing it. The imperial presidency and jet-age diplomacy are producing a matching elite of imperial commentators. For whatever reason, some hard questions go unpressed. Who, for example, demands of King Hussein...
Major Violators program blocks the revolving door...
...elderly black sisters were knitting and singing We Shall Overcome in the kitchen of their small Boston house one hot night last summer when a convicted burglar burst through the back door and demanded money. The intruder, 6 ft. 4 in. and 220 lbs., viciously beat the two women before fleeing. Police captured him a short time later. Thanks to clogged conditions in many urban courts, suspects in felony cases often relax on the street for a year or more and eventually extract a light, plea-bargained sentence from beleaguered prosecutors. But only 61 days after the Boston assault...