Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within the CFIA, however. Swift has won unusual friendship and esteem from her colleagues One of the best liked fellows at the center. Swifts described variously as "warm and outgoing," "energetic" and "extremely intelligent," and one administrator called her "a spark plug member of the group...
...narrow, dualistic vision of world events, the government ignores pressing and unique problems indigenous to different regions. The U.S. sells AWACs to a nation that has declared undying hatred of a close American ally, a conviction that America is only a purveyor of arms, and a desire for friendship with the Soviet Union. It sends a stream of arms into a region traumatized by civil war, in the hope of propping up repressive, but nominally pro-American regimes...
...Britain would also be faced with the cost of repairing the war damages, but would want to attract as many nations as possible to invest in developing the islands. Says Foreign Secretary Pym: "The best future for the islanders will be in rebuilding. If there is peace, stability and friendship in the whole region, people are more prosperous and their economic future is brighter." Pym also feels that the Falklands and Argentina must work out good relations if the islands are to prosper...
Iran has indeed received support from practically every direction. Among its backers have been the Soviet Union, which is trying to form a long-term friendship with Tehran; Syria, which regards Iraq as an implacable enemy; and, in the early days of the war, the Palestine Liberation Organization, which felt obliged to follow Syrian policy because of the strong Syrian role in Lebanon. An unlikely backer of the Tehran regime has been Israel, which regards Iraq as a more dangerous threat than Iran and thereby follows the ancient adage "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Last week Israeli...
...retain its longstanding ties with Baghdad while building a new relationship with Tehran, Moscow was hoping to negotiate a peace settlement between the two countries and use that agreement as the basis of a new pro-Soviet alliance. No way, said Khomeini, adding that the real test of Soviet friendship rested on whether Moscow would publicly condemn Saddam Hussein as the aggressor in the war and would halt all arms shipments to Iraq. The Soviets temporized, finally concluding that there was little they could do to dissuade Khomeini from his determination to destroy Saddam Hussein. With Moscow's blessing...