Word: fiascos
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...others tried to stop them. In the balcony, rival factions smacked each other with programs. From the orchestra pit Conductor Giuseppe Patané, who was ill himself, pleaded with the audience to be quiet; eventually he too collapsed under the strain, and a substitute conductor had to finish the fiasco...
...lied to about what was going to happen," he said. "I'm chairman of the tournament next year, and if we have to hold it at Harvard there will be a championship tournament. There will be no repeat of this year's fiasco...
...striking that the harshest critics of the Begin government in this sordid fiasco are Jews, not Gentiles; Israelis, not the Diaspora. Nor were those assailing the government exclusively members of the Labor opposition. The right-win newspaper Maariv wrote: "This whole affair, which outrages and disgusts, cannot be ended simply by a statement of sorrow. Someone is responsible here and has to take the consequences." And Eitan Haber, military correspondent for the pro-Begin paper Yediot Ahronot claimed: "Government ministers and senior commanders already knew during the hours of Thursday night and Friday morning that a terrible massacre was taking...
...more fundamental reason for the fiasco, however, was the deepest split in O.A.U. history, which was also, at least in part, because of Gaddafi. Last February, he and 25 other leaders of radical and left-leaning African states engineered the recognition of the self-styled Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (S.A.D.R.) as the O.A.U.'s 51st member. That is the name used by the Polisario guerrillas in the Western Sahara...
...traded at 36. Last week, in a public relations blitz designed to get the bad news behind him, Continental Chairman Roger Anderson took the highly unusual step of publicly discussing details of the bank's loans with investment analysts and journalists alike. Said he of the Penn Square fiasco, in which Continental has so far written off $45 million in risky loans that exceed $1 billion: "It has been a body blow to us. Our confidence and pride have been hurt but not gravely wounded...