Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basis for Soviet military assistance to Syria is a treaty of "friendship and cooperation" that was signed by Assad and former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow in 1980. The pact was drawn up at a time when Syria's increasing isolation from other Arab countries was causing Assad to rethink a foreign policy that has been described as "acrobatic nonalignment." But even while courting Moscow's increased attentions, Assad has never been more than a reluctant Soviet suitor. For two years after the treaty's signing, Assad mysteriously failed to reappoint a Syrian Ambassador to Moscow...
LAIER when Robert Kennedy decided to join the fray, he would ask Lowenstein to shift to his camp. Torn between friendship and respect for Kennedy and his commitment to back McCarthy, Lowenstein said no Kennedy retreated to the back of the bus on which the group was riding, and scribbled Lowenstein a note. "For A1, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us," it read. "They did not yet see ... that if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round to him. From his friend...
...routinely reviled the Soviets as godless Communists, while Khomeini opposed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But Moscow wooed Tehran by offering assistance against the nettlesome Mujahedin guerrillas. In response, the mullahs invited KGB agents to Iran to provide military and economic advice. Last year Moscow proposed a treaty of friendship and mutual assistance with Iran, while offering repeatedly to mediate in Khomeini's 2½-year-old war against Iraq, a longtime Soviet client...
...called the First Crusade. The maimed pilgrim boards a ship at Genoa and then finds his progress stalled. He is captured by pirates and put up for sale at a slave market in Tripoli. His purchaser, a wealthy Turkish merchant, immediately negotiates his freedom and brings him home in friendship to Antioch, that unfortunate city whose destiny lies between the Crusaders and their goal. Looking out at the tents of the besieging armies, the German Jew reflects on the oddity of his position: "I stand on this wall built by a Roman emperor and keep watch on the Franks with...
...democracy and the bravery of its voters in turning out heavily in last year's elections. By contrast, the Cuban-backed regime in Nicaragua was depicted as an unmitigated villain, reneging on its promise to hold free elections, censoring its press and export-big its revolution despite the friendship and aid the U.S. had offered when the new government came to power in 1979. In the two years after the revolution, Reagan reminded his listeners, the U.S. provided five times as much aid ($118 million) to Nicaragua as in the two years prior to the revolution. This...