Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of the treaty in the U.S. is less certain. Commitment to a U.S.-controlled canal is deeply embedded in popular sentiment and skillfully exploited by such conservative Republican Senators as Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms flaunts a recent poll of 1,011 adult Americans by the Opinion Research Corporation, showing 78% for keeping the canal, only 14% willing to cede it to Panama. Yet the survey does not specify the conditions under which the U.S. might relinquish the canal...
...Assad' s general rejection of the other suggestions that Vance brought. When asked if the American's visit had advanced peace the Syrian replied: "Not necessarily There are no new data that make us closer to Geneva than we were two days ago " Insisting that the fate of the Palestinians is the"mother question," Assad refused to budge from his long-standing demand that the P.L.O. be included at Geneva. Although he refused to rule out a Geneva conference for this year. Assad's general attitude belied the flexibility that President Carter claims to have perceived during...
...plies that route, delivering into the arms of a uniformed doorman a single pristine early City edition of tomorrow's New York Times?still warm from the presses, still faintly redolent of ink and hot lead. The newborn newspaper is quickly whisked to an upper floor, where a horrible fate awaits...
...early Geneva conference at which a comprehensive (in contrast to a step-by-step) solution would be negotiated. A fair settlement, according to Carter's many statements on the subject, would resolve three fundamental issues: the nature of peace for Israel, the borders of the warring states, and the fate of the Palestinians. In his search for settlement, the President has met with Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein, Saudi Arabia's Prince Fahd and Syria's Hafez Assad, in addition to Begin...
Shadrin's Polish-born wife Blanka, however, is accusing the FBI of bungling his Vienna mission, then abandoning a loyal American to his fate. The White House has declared that the U.S. is trying to obtain information about Shadrin, a U.S. citizen. But a top State Department official said that Washington could not be expected to give Shadrin's disappearance high priority in U.S.-Soviet relations. After all, he observed, anyone who becomes an agent, especially a double agent, is playing a perilous game-and knows...