Word: go-between
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...both capitals. Chernenko mentioned "nonmilitarization of outer space" first in his list of topics to be negotiated, followed by a "reduction of strategic nuclear arms and medium-range nuclear weapons." (He invited Industrialist Armand Hammer, 86, a longtime friend of Soviet leaders, to Moscow as an unofficial pre-Geneva go-between, and Hammer readily accepted...
Nevertheless, Greene complied with the dictator's wishes. During the Torrijos years, he worked on a novel, Monsignor Quixote, about the adventures of a simple village priest abroad in the world. In Panama, he was a real-life counterpart. By his own evidence, he served as the go-between in a kidnaping, learned about the hoax of the "Virgin that perspires," failed to write a book about Panama, finally located a well-made rum punch, and saw a "horseman [ride] by carrying a cock on his hand in the way a waiter carries a tray...
...example, the Office of Sponsored Research, she said, acts as a go-between for professors and potential sponsors, the biggest of which is the U.S. federal government, which funded $110 million Harvard projects over the last fiscal year...
...studies of human frailty and spiritual corruption; of cancer; in London. An avowed leftist forced into exile by the McCarthy-era blacklist, he started working in England in 1952 and collaborated with Writer Harold Pinter on most of his best films, including The Servant (1963), Accident (1966) and The Go-Between, which won first prize at the Cannes Film Festival...
...three other F.M.L.N. chieftains remains a matter of speculation. There is Shafik Jorge Handal, 53, general secretary of the Salvadoran Communist Party and commander of its armed wing, the 1,500-member Armed Forces of Liberation. The son of Palestinian immigrants, Handal has been the F.M.L.N.'s main go-between with the Soviet Union and Cuba. He first led the Communists into armed action in 1979. Because of his standing in Moscow, Handal's influence in guerrilla councils may be out of proportion to the size of his forces...