Word: havens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic improvement in the economy has not yielded more political support for him. "I wish we could make people feel that what we've done has been beneficial to them ... The people in the middle [politically] are sort of apathetic. How to regenerate them−we haven't found an answer...
...first conducted with limited forces, firmly convinced the Lebanese left that Syria's sympathies lay with Lebanon's hard-pressed Christian rightists. For the bulk of Yasser Arafat's P.L.O., it seemed incontrovertible proof that Damascus was intent on emasculating the fedayeen in their last haven in the Arab world, as part of a more subtle movement toward an eventual wider settlement with Israel. As the Palestinians saw it, a "final confrontation" was brewing, the equivalent of King Hussein's bloody Black September suppression of the fedayeen in Jordan six years...
...agreement with the 24 banks was delayed by Haack's darkest day at Lockheed, when Canada abruptly pulled out of a $1.06 billion order for 18 Orion antisubmarine patrol aircraft. "I tell you," says Haack, "you haven't known heartbreak until a billion-dollar deal is canceled on you on two minutes' notice." The order collapsed over a billion-dollar misunderstanding: Ottawa and Lockheed each thought the other was to be responsible for financing early stages of the contract. But Lockheed may still not have lost the Canadian business: Haack has submitted a new proposal stretching...
...From our own point of view, and from the point of view of the party, that is still true. We haven't become more impatient. It's the events-unfortunate events-that are pushing ahead faster. I say unfortunate because we are not enthusiastic about entering the government at the present time, not only because we have no particular personal ambitions, but because it would mean going into the government in a very difficult moment for Italy, with a heavy inheritance from past governments. But there is no doubt that the situation requires a change in leadership...
...have to stay here; I'm a fish and I was born in a dirty pond and that's how I breathe in that pond." But the pond began to dry up. Simon's wife Joan died of cancer in 1973. Last year, in New Haven, Simon abruptly decided that he had to move. "I suddenly realized after all these years I was beginning to recognize the audiences in the theater. They were almost familiar faces. The New York winter was getting me down. My old place housed too many ghosts...