Word: go-between
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...plunged into the Gulf of Aqaba and swam to the Israeli resort town of Eilat, local authorities took no chances. They checked to see if the defector was booby-trapped. It wasn't. Though Jordan and Israel are technically at war, Israeli officials returned the pony through a U.N. go-between...
...JESSE JACKSON act as a go-between for the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International in its dealings with African central banks? That's what Nazir Chinoy, the former B.C.C.I. Paris chief who is a federal prisoner, told a Senate subcommittee last week, but Jackson vigorously denies the tale. Chinoy testified that B.C.C.I. paid Jackson's Paris hotel bills during a 1985 trip in which Jackson also visited several African heads of state and added that Jackson offered to help B.C.C.I. establish business relationships with them. Jackson notes that at the time most people thought B.C.C.I. was legitimate. Says...
...released. He was carrying a message from Islamic Jihad: if Israel would release more than 300 Arab detainees, including Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Shi'ite Muslim cleric kidnapped by Israeli commandos in 1989, the group would be willing to free its remaining captives. Using Picco as a go-between, the two sides began exchanging information about the condition of their prisoners...
...Millett cannot be blamed for all the program's problems. She is only a go-between for University Hall administrators and house staffs. She tried to keep the houses informed as much as possible over the summer despite the lack of hard numbers at her disposal. It is not Millett's fault that higher-ups failed to foresee potential short-comings of their proposal...
Gorbachev proved his skills as a go-between when he negotiated the last, never signed union treaty. Whether the nation that emerges out of the rubble now takes the form of a federation, confederation or commonwealth, there will still be a need for some kind of governmental body to judge the conflicting claims of the member states. The President of the Soviet Union is the logical candidate to assume such an executive role, and that means Gorbachev...