Word: hopefull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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An armor-plated Cadillac goes with the job, and instant call on a 707 or Learjet. The salary is $60,000. The executive suite is the grandest in Washington, with half a museum's worth of Early American furniture, sweeping views from a vast eighth-floor terrace, and a...
Meanwhile he is welcoming the advice, often sought, sometimes unsolicited, of the whole imposing Democratic Foreign Policy Establishment, and putting its members to work on speeches, position papers, background studies. He is said to see some safety in numbers, in keeping all these influential people busy and hopeful, and also...
In addition to fighting continued resistance from a so-called handful of enemies, the Neto government faces huge problems in trying to rebuild war-shattered Angola. Coffee production from devastated fazendas (plantations) in the north will be only 500,000 bags this year, down from the normal 3.5 million bags...
Amid such bloodshed and bitterness, there have been a few hopeful signs. Last week both Israel and Syria agreed to extend for another six months the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping forces on the Golan Heights. The agreement by Jerusalem and Damascus was as much to avoid the...
For the short term, barring miscalculation, continued U.S. brokerage is likely to prevent such a war. Along with their internal problems that counsel against renewed fighting, Arabs and Israelis alike know the U.S. is too hamstrung by its presidential election this year to assert the leadership necessary to produce new...