Word: embarrassement
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...strained relations between the two governments also aroused a few suspicions (quickly denied in Washington) that U.S. intelligence, in order to embarrass Rabin, might have leaked stories to the effect that recent Israeli troop withdrawals in Sinai were not what they seemed to be. At the end of Ford's meeting with Sadat, the Israelis, as a token of their interest in peace, announced that they were thinning out their 7,000 troops in the Limited Forces Zone in the Sinai. As it turned out, the Israelis had earlier reduced their forces to about 3,500; in some sectors...
...lives. Newspapers have begun to run classified ads asking the whereabouts of scores of people who have simply disappeared from campuses, homes or offices. There is concern in Washington that left-wing terrorists may use the occasion of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visit this week to embarrass President Perón by kidnaping or even assassinating her guest...
Councilor David A. Wylie, who supported the order but opposes any pay increase for the workers, accused Danehy and Clinton of trying to make political capital out of the workers' demands. "Danehy and Clinton are using this as a means to embarrass the city manager," he said...
...part, Hughes' employees kept the CIA informed about the activities of White House Plumber E. Howard Hunt. Among other things, they reported that he had interviewed ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard and planned to rifle the files of Las Vegas Publisher Hank Greenspun in search of information that might embarrass Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. At the time, ex-CIA Agent Hunt was also working for Robert R. Mullen & Co., a now defunct public relations firm in Washington that provided cover for CIA agents in Europe and the Far East. The firm was headed by Robert Bennett, who also worked...
...delegation of second-ranking P.L.O. executives to Cairo to discuss the Kissinger negotiations with Sadat. In a sharp rebuff, Sadat said that he would discuss such matters only with the P.L.O. leadership (meaning Arafat); the delegation never arrived. In what was apparently the result of a bald attempt to embarrass Sadat, the rubber dinghy used by the fedayeen at Tel Aviv last week carried a marking, "Egyptian Army Seamen," and its lone survivor at first insisted that he had set out from Port Said. (He later admitted that the party embarked from Lebanon.) Sadat must be cautious at a time...