Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brzezinski in the past couple of years, as Vance put it, to protect Brzezinski against his own large insecurities. "It's not personal, it's institutional," maintained the Secretary. "It will be a terrible blow for the State Department." Mondale tried to be the peacemaker. The group stayed up until 3 o'clock in the morning with the distraught Vance refusing to budge. Strauss periodically left the room while Jordan and Mondale tried to persuade the Secretary to see it the President's way. Vance, as ever the loyal compromiser, finally went along. "He was humiliated...
Declared a group of 200 black leaders, who assembled at the N.A.A.C.P. headquarters in New York City to discuss the split: "Some Jewish organizations and intellectuals who were previously identified with the aspirations of black Americans . . . became apologists for the racial status quo. They asserted that further attempts to remedy the present forms of discrimination were violative of the civil rights laws . . . Jews must show more sensitivity and be prepared for more consultation before taking positions contrary to the best interests of the black community...
Retorted a group of eleven Jewish organizations: "It is with sorrow and anger that we note these statements. We cannot work with those who resort to half-truths, lies and bigotry in any guise or from any source. . . We cannot work with those who would succumb to Arab blackmail...
...those who wondered precisely what were the causes of black dissatisfaction, the group of 200 voiced them in what some called a "declaration of independence." The main causes...
...nervous passengers who strolled hesitantly past the President's rear cabin. Carter roamed on board freely, but generally alone, though he and Rosalynn viewed the vessel's mild entertainments-a card-sharping exhibition and the movie Showboat-and shared drinks in the lounge one night with a group of Catholic retirees. Lois Paskett, a widow from St. Paul, bubbled, "I have a hard time getting to sleep just thinking I am on the same boat with the President." Nonetheless, by journey's end many passengers were grumbling about the noisy goings...