Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help a friendly government survive "indirect armed aggression" by Cuba and other Communist nations that are funneling weapons to the leftist guerrillas. Though the Mexican President has refused to give them aid in the Salvadoran conflict, he publicly supports the leftists. In addition, he has a longstanding and effusive friendship with Cuba's Fidel Castro at a time when the U.S. wants to get tough with Castro...
...leaders agreed to continue their joint efforts to shore up the franc. Mitterrand pledged to continue the Giscard-Schmidt policy of simultaneously beefing up European missile capacity while seeking arms-limitation talks with Moscow. Said a broadly smiling Chancellor after his three-hour meeting with Mitterrand: "Franco-German friendship no longer depends on us personally. It has become an indisputable fact." Later in the week, however, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson declared that the Paris-Bonn axis would not operate at the expense of other European partners...
...East Pakistan city of Chittagong, proclaiming a rebellion against West Pakistan that ultimately created the nation of Bangladesh. Late last week there was another voice on the radio from Chittagong, announcing that Major General Manjur, 40, had taken over the government and abrogated the country's 1972 friendship treaty with India. The hero of a decade ago, President Ziaur Rahman, only 45, lay dead with two aides and six bodyguards in a government rest house in Chittagong. All were reportedly shot by an assassination squad, led by Manjur, in the early morning hours Saturday...
...Arabia, where Habib had spent two days in talks with Crown Prince Fahd and other Saudi officials. The Saudis deeply fear that if a Syrian-Israeli confrontation were to take place, the Soviets would strengthen their influence in the region. Damascus and Moscow signed a 20-year Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation last October. In the Saudi view, a military conflict might also foster radical politics in the area, posing yet another threat to stability and conservative Arab regimes...
...establish. One feels he is sometimes easing away from the tougher implications of his tale. There is also an empty prettiness to his shooting, especially in the transitions from season to season. Still, American movies are rarely as alert as The Four Seasons is to the tensions implicit in friendship, to the social conventions by which people try to control the anxieties of ordinary life, and one cannot help responding warmly to the good work of an obviously decent man. -By Richard Schickel