Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really boring Russian diplomats are not KGB," says one Western intelligence agent. The KGB man often wears Western suits (veterans of U.S. service favor Brooks Brothers). He-or she-entertains freely, and spends more money than non-KGB apparatchiks...
...Kamel, Vance and Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan had considerably narrowed the language gap before the Egyptian delegation was ordered home two weeks ago. Still to be resolved, however, was the phrasing of the item involving the nature of a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian entity. The Egyptians favor the words used by Carter at his meeting with Sadat in Aswan last month: recognition of "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." The Israelis have accepted the phrase that the Palestinians have the right to "participate in the determination of their own future." Begin has proposed "self-rule," meaning...
...publicly in support of the shaky Ethiopian regime is not clear. The Soviets have a history of miscalculation on the Horn: following the overthrow of Haile Selassie in 1974, Moscow saw a chance to weaken U.S. influence in the area and for some reason thought it could curry favor with its new friends in Addis Ababa without antagonizing Somalia's President, Mohamed Siad Barre, who had been the Kremlin's closest ally in northeast Africa. But angered by Moscow's growing involvement with Ethiopia, a traditional Somali enemy, Barre kicked the Russians out of his country last...
...deteriorating relations with Viet Nam will push Hanoi further into the embrace of Moscow. Worst of all, if the Vietnamese were to rout the Cambodians, a Kremlin-manipulated puppet regime could emerge in Phnom-Penh and tilt the balance of power in Southeast Asia in Moscow's favor...
...sadly defeating of the boycott's purpose. To be blunt, the less regard they will have for the effectiveness of the boycott as a legitimate expression of solidarity with UFW goals. This does not mean that the UFW supporter has to forego buying toothpaste or spring term books in favor of Gallo wine. Nor does it mean that one must prefer Gallo products over the previously non-boycotted products if the latter are less expensive or more desirable. But those among us who have in the past avoided Gallo by buying a more expensive or less desirable wine should stand...