Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together a collection of his searing essays, Notes of a Native Son ("Each generation is promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage"). Then came Giovanni's Room, a rather purple novel about homosexuality. And then, in 1957, when French friends kept asking him to "explain Little Rock," where the U.S. Army had been summoned to escort nine black children to school through screaming mobs of whites, Jimmy finally decided "that it would be simpler . . . to go to Little Rock than sit in Europe, on an American passport, trying to explain...
...bridge or a shadowed street or a landing strip; a swift, furtive swap of two men, pawns in an international power struggle. This time, though, the drama was real. At 12:40 p.m. last Monday, an Iranian passenger jet landed at Karachi Airport and taxied toward a French Falcon 50 waiting on a cleared section of the tarmac. Pakistani security police held off newsmen and photographers while French and Iranian consular officers supervised the exchange of two passengers. A few moments later, the First Secretary at France's embassy in Tehran, Paul Torri, wearing a tweed sport coat...
Thus ended the so-called war of the embassies, the diplomatic standoff in which the French diplomat and the Iranian interpreter were held for five months as virtual prisoners in their embassies. Only 48 hours before the . exchange, Premier Jacques Chirac's government had won the release of two French hostages in Beirut...
...some form of comprehensive French-Iranian deal been arranged? The British suspected so. Reflecting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's fury, London's major dailies charged that the French had betrayed the spirit if not the letter of a European Community agreement to refuse dealings with terrorists. Just as hotly, Paris denied the charge. In Washington and other allied capitals, uneasy questions were raised about what the French were up to. But the Reagan Administration, saddled with the Irangate scandal, was hardly in a position to castigate the French too harshly. At the E.C. summit meeting at Copenhagen, Chirac assured Thatcher...
...Soviet teasers. Moscow's "interim" proposal was the bait for a summit, and it had a number of familiar strings attached. The Soviets had devised a complicated formula that would give them their long-sought compensation for the British and French independent nuclear arsenals that the U.S. insisted should not be part of any INF deal. Also, the U.S. would be allowed to keep only cruise missiles in Europe. The more capable Pershing II ballistic missiles would have to come out. Moreover, the Soviet proposal stipulated that the U.S. would have to commit itself to the eventual elimination...