Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holding a summit last week in Fez, Morocco. To the proud and stubborn Israeli leader, whose cooperation in any Middle East peace process would be essential, the whole idea of the plan was anathema. "It no longer exists," Begin said sharply. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added: "The friendship between Israel and the U.S. still exists...
...effusive display of friendship between Hussein and the P.L.O. contrasted sharply with their last encounter. In September 1970 the tough, Bedouin-led troops of King Hussein's army crushed an open challenge to his rule by P.L.O. guerrillas, who had created a state within a state in Jordan, much as they later were to do in Lebanon. At least 2,000 guerrillas were killed, and thousands of civilians died or were made homeless. Some 20,000 Palestinians were forced to flee to Lebanon, where their attacks against Israel eventually led to last June's invasion by Israeli forces...
Since Gandhi's last official visit eleven years ago, the U.S. has become increasingly disturbed by India's resolutely independent posture, which was interpreted by Washington as a sign of coziness with the Soviet Union. Gandhi sought to dispel this impression. Said she: "Our hand of friendship is stretched out to all. One friendship does not come in the way of another...
...grown tired of living up to his 30-year legend. Gary Busey plays (engagingly, as always) a renegade farm boy who wants to be part of that legend and, if he can, extend it into Western myth. For all its genre trappings, Barbarosa is essentially a comedy about friendship; both the humor and the amity are infectious. Australian Director Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) uses his telephoto lens to caress the rugged vistas and visages of West Texas like a melancholy lover. Time-lapse shadows lope across a mountain range, eloquently suggesting the irony of a professional...
...definition and direction. First, he seeks the pride the could never have achieved living above a cat house with his degenerate father. Second he learns about the price of integrity, avoiding false emotionalism in his early relationship with Paula. Third, he discovers that he can combine these with true friendship and generosity. In a subplot that could have become hokey, but somehow doesn't Mayo provides the final burst of encouragement a lone female trainee needs to prove herself physically capable of making the grade...