Word: embarrassement
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...reason was that the same compromise that placated farm-state Senators angered urban Congressmen. Pennsylvania and California Representatives, whose states would have got less gas than under Carter's original proposal, voted heavily against it. Republicans seized on the chance to voice ideological hostility to Government regulation -and embarrass a Democratic President making an unpopular proposal. "We do not need rationing; we need production!" cried John Ashbrook of Ohio. But the biggest reason for the turndown was simple fear that a vote even for stand-by rationing in an emergency would brand a Congressman as being "for rationing...
...Britain's relations with its African allies, notably Nigeria, could be jeopardized by an abrupt change in policy on Rhodesia. The Commonwealth Prime Ministers are scheduled to meet in Zambia later this year. If the African members should still be angry with Mrs. Thatcher at that time, they could embarrass her greatly by deciding upon some kind of retaliation, such as an attempt to expel Britain from the British Commonwealth...
...aerial-survey camera under the seat of the copilot." The Prime Minister charged that "the embassy air craft was engaged in a systematic pro gram of photography of vast areas of South Africa, including some of our most sensitive installations." Botha's disclosures seemed designed both to embarrass the Carter Administration at a time when the U.S. is pressing South Africa to accept a United Nations plan for the inde pendence of Namibia, and to deflect attention from his scandal-ridden government at home...
Despite growing political opposition, the Premier is in no immediate danger of losing his job. Chirac, who had convened the emergency parliamentary session in order to embarrass Giscard, was quickly outmaneuvered last week. When the Socialists and Communists called for a no-confidence motion against the coalition government, Chirac was reluctantly forced to support Barre. The leftists, whose family quarrels contributed heavily to their defeat in last year's elections, are still divided. The Communist and Socialist parties could not agree even on the wording of a no-confidence motion, with the result that the two parties produced their...
...industrialist named Josias van Zyl, 31, who offered Rhoodie a sales job in one of his companies. What the two men wanted in return was Rhoodie's promise not to say anything further, and not to make public the contents of tapes and documents that Rhoodie claims would embarrass the South African government...