Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operators met in Washington to draw up plans with William Hill, chairman of the shaky Independent Truckers Unity Coalition. But many of them walked out in anger over Hill's insistence on a 10% rate increase and his highhanded tactics. Explained Ted Brooks, who represents Maryland independents: "We feel that holding out for 10% is unfair to the public and is going to result in nothing but bad publicity for the independents...
...signal for the great SALT II debate to begin in earnest. At stake is not just a treaty, but ten years of nuclear arms negotiations and the very nature of the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Friend and foe of the treaty in the Senate feel they have embarked, in the words of Republican Treaty Opponent Jesse Helms of North Carolina, "on what may be the most significant national debate of our time...
...hard data from the Vienna summit will prove that, but one could feel it in those ancient streets. Quiet crowds watched the laborious and cloaked comings and goings of Leonid Brezhnev at the Hofburg Palace. The grand patrons of the Vienna Opera stealthily turned their proud profiles when the lights dimmed and in the middle of Mozart raised their opera glasses for furtive study of the Brezhnev mask. Soviet proposals at the negotiating table were from old chapters. Their speeches were uninspired. They seemed oddly fearful of the future, even with their massive arsenal...
...flavored with humor. The Soviets were heavy, suspicious, and of the 16 who lined up for the treaty signing, twelve had mouths that swooped dourly down. So did their minds. All the new thoughts for disarmament were from Carter, the prodding to move along was his. One could feel the flexibility in the Americans, the license to think almost anything. "It was like seeing Brezhnev in slow motion," said one American, who had watched him pound the table and bound around rooms in earlier years...
Many of them feel they have no choice. As one officer put it: "If we give up, the Sandinistas will kill us." But there is a growing recognition that the civil war cannot be stopped as long as Somoza reigns. As an American-trained national guardsman put it last week, "In this war, nobody gives an inch. The current round could cease in two weeks. But when it does, both sides will just rearm, and we'll be fighting again in three months or so, just like before...