Word: friendships
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...steel exports to the U.S., which totaled $1.3 billion last year, were unfairly subsidized and thus subject to penalty duties. Further economic blows of that kind could threaten the country's long and gradual "opening" to full civilian rule, and complicate what is essentially a long and stable friendship between Brasilia and Washington. Predicts a Brazilian banker: "Late 1984 could be a crucial period for U.S.-Brazilian relations." Before ending his trip with a brief courtesy visit to Barbados, Shultz will look in on yet another tricky democratic transition, in tiny Grenada (see following story). But with much...
González also describes Durazo's involvement in drug smuggling, fraud and homicide; the author even claims that he killed several people on Durazo's behalf. Because of his friendship with former President José López Portillo, the chief apparently assumed he was immune from prosecution...
...targeting Kerr for assassination, the killers chose a man who had spent much of his life promoting trust and friendship between the West and the Arab world. Kerr was born in Beirut, the son of an American biochemistry professor at the university. He studied there and at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Later he taught political science for 20 years at the University of California at Los Angeles. But Kerr always dreamed of returning...
...British government to waive his country's payment of a $30 million debt. In Portugal, Mozambique's longtime colonial master and Machel's bitter foe during a ten-year struggle for independence, the former guerrilla commander declared that the two countries were bound "in a friendship of steel." Upon returning home, he gave his blessing to the accreditation of an American ambassador less than three years after expelling four U.S. diplomats on charges of spying. And last week in their capital city of Maputo, which has been blasted three times by South African raids, Mozambique officials began...
...Brannaman suggests that if the Israelis don't like "the solution, they could return in large numbers to Russia..." But the again, what does Mr. Brannaman understand of mutual friendship and self-determination and democracy? And to condemn Communism as a Jewish creation makes about as much sense as condemning philosophy as a pagan creation--the particular school of thought has nothing to do with the religion of the human beings who developed it. (Good gods! Evolution is a Christian creation, and algebra and astronomy are Moslem creations...