Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understands all this and the resolution of the play lies in whether or not he can coax Hallie back out of his shell. Hallie needs Sam's friendship more than ever. And underneath Sam's attempt to shield Hallie from the cruelty of the world is his own burning need to prove that whites and Blacks can live peacefully together...
That risk did not stop Ron and Nancy from inviting Liz and Phil over for a barbecue at the ranch near Santa Barbara. Indeed, if the Reagans and the royals were not already intimate, the week should force them into friendship. Nancy Reagan will spend a day and two nights on Britannia steaming up to San Francisco, arriving well ahead of Thursday's state dinner. On Friday, the Reagans were to celebrate their 31st wedding anniversary aboard Britannia...
Glenn, who is running second to Mondale in the opinion polls (41% to 17%, according to a Harris survey of Democratic voters this month), has an all-American aura that seems almost undiminished since that day 21 years ago when his Friendship 7 capsule re-entered the atmosphere. He has been neither appealing directly to individual voter blocs nor organizing grass-roots volunteers. His aides feel that his celebrity makes it possible for him to win the primary obstacle run by appealing to a broad cross section of voters. "The interesting question is whether it's possible to have...
Since then the friendship has suffered further strains. Begin defiantly and hastily rejected Reagan's peace plan last September. He totally ignored the President's request for a freeze on West Bank settlements, and only four days later conspicuously gave the O.K. for eight new settlements in the occupied territories. What especially infuriated U.S. officials was Israel's entry into West Beirut after the assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel. The move broke a pledge made to Washington, and created the conditions in which Sharon and his commanders could be held indirectly accountable for the Beirut massacre...
President Reagan has never allowed the Chinese a large place in his affections. He has generally subscribed to the communist-threat idea, and the Chinese have reciprocated by portraying him as insensible to the "obvious" importance of friendship with history's most populous nation. Their embarrassing of vice-president candidate George Bush during his 1980 visit with warnings about "two China" policies was an appeal to those who have accepted the notion of China's significance for American policy, including, apparently, the journalists who gave the incident prominent coverage...