Word: indirectness
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Unwilling to bargain, unable to use force, the U.S. turned to indirect diplomacy. Late in the first day of the crisis Reagan secretly cabled Syrian President Hafez Assad and asked him to use his influence to free the hostages or at least keep them alive. Though the Damascus regime has harbored Shi'ite extremists in terrorist camps in Baalbek, a city in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Assad is known to want to contain Shi'ite terror, as he takes his turn at trying to pacify Lebanon. His response to the U.S. request, according to Administration aides, was "positive." Assad...
Some have charged that PBS succumbed to at least indirect pressure from the Reagan Administration to telecast the AIM program. The film was partly funded by a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded by then NEH Chief William Bennett, now Reagan's Secretary of Education. The program was later given a special screening at the White House, to which PBS officials were invited. Such interest at the top levels of Government, critics say, can hardly be ignored by a TV service depending on federal funds for its existence...
...work of mercenaries hired by members of a Lebanese intelligence unit that had secretly received counterterrorist training and assistance from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA did not know about the attack beforehand and had no control over it, the Post said. Alarmed that even this indirect association with such an incident could damage U.S. interests in the Middle East, the Reagan Administration canceled its connection with the Lebanese intelligence agency...
Another purpose of the maneuvers may be to slip some indirect aid to the contras. In the past, the anti-Sandinista guerrillas have picked up weapons | and equipment left behind by American troops after military exercises in Honduras ended. The contras could use some help. Though the U.S. Congress does not seem to be terribly disturbed by the American military maneuvers, it cut off direct funding of the anti-Sandinista rebels last June. A vote likely in the next month on the Reagan Administration's request to renew aid with a $14 million appropriation is expected to be breathtakingly close...
Handl establishes the ground rules for this domestic mayhem almost entirely through dialogue interspersed with bits of indirect discourse and peeks into the minds of the characters who happen to be onstage at the moment. This method is undeniably exhilarating, the equivalent of being grabbed by the elbow and shoved into an especially deracinated cocktail party. But the fun grows a bit forced over the long haul; even the most bizarre conversations cannot forever hide the fact that not much of substance is happening. Handl's people are splendidly funny because they all, with the possible exception of Castleton...