Word: friendships
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...organizations of clerical power but to avoid any actions that could arouse official suspicion. Meanwhile, Moscow provided Iran with increasing amounts of military and economic aid, though always by proxy. Indeed, to hedge their bets, the Soviets continued giving token support to Iraq, with which they have had a friendship treaty since 1960 and whose army they have largely supplied...
...Soviet Union has also been cool to Syria's peace-keeping efforts in Lebanon, and presumably felt that supporting Syria in Lebanon now was not worth taking the risk of worsening relations between the superpowers. Under the terms of a 1980 friendship treaty, Moscow is obliged to consult with Syria on issues of national security, but it has steadfastly resisted Syrian efforts to make the military ties more binding. Even though the Kremlin has promised to make good Syria's war losses, Western diplomats noted last week that military shipments have not been sufficient to replace...
When the Hickok letters were released, Biographer Joseph Lash had already written three books about Eleanor-a memoir of their long friendship, which began in the late 1930s when he was a leftist youth leader in Washington, and the bestselling two-volume study, Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor: The Years Alone. Lash has set out to balance his work with two more volumes, of which Love, Eleanor is the first...
...told before, by Lash himself. What the new book brings to E.R.'s story is an appreciation of the degree to which, after her armed truce with F.D.R. over the Mercer affair, she found and gave her own kind of affection. One of the first of these idiosyncratic friendships was with Louis Howe, an early political aide of her husband, a man described as ugly and misshapen, an impossible choice for a lover. Yet her daughter Anna was shocked once to find her sitting at Howe's.feet as he stroked her hair. "No form of love...
...condemns this report. The notion that his parents "might have engaged in marital recriminations in front of staff and aides is totally inconsistent with their semi-Victorian upbringing and their personal reticences." The letters exchanged between Eleanor and Lash, he says, accurately reflect the innocent nature of their unusual friendship. Here, the reader is the jury. The old Roosevelt haters who recall her muzzy newspaper columns and his years of autocratic rule will believe the worst. But those who see in E.R. a complex, endlessly charitable woman can only answer with more charity...