Word: interlocutor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reached the top of a Communist hierarchy except by ruthlessness. Yet the charm of the Chinese leaders obscured that quality, while Brezhnev's gruff heavynandedness tended to emphasize it. The Chinese even amid the greatest cordiality kept their distance. Brezhnev, who had physical magnetism, crowded his interlocutor...
Early in his Moscow stay, Clark came to know the Soviet dissidents whose names would gain world attention: Yuri Orlov, Alexander Ginzburg, Anatoli Shcharansky. It was Shcharansky who acted as Clark's interlocutor and interpreter in several talks with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov. Recalls Clark: "Shcharansky seemed merely to be busying himself while awaiting emigration to Israel, for which he had repeatedly applied, perhaps believing that by making himself obnoxious to the authorities they would kick him out. How wrong...
...that end, his personal concerns are earnest, international, multiracial (see TIME INTERVIEW). Britain's royalty is expected to steer clear of partisan political positions but need not avoid controversial ones: on race, a particularly hot issue in Britain, Charles outspokenly supports an open society. He agreed to act as interlocutor in the current BBC anthropology series Face Values partly to promote his vision of racial harmony. He is also a disciple of the late E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful, with its plea for alternative economic systems and technologies...
...schemes, and he listened more than he spoke. At each of his stops, his approach was basically the same -except for Lebanon, where he concentrated almost exclusively on the internal problems of that war-torn country. In Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, he was the persistent interlocutor, running through his list of prepared questions in an attempt to discover new subtleties in the Arab and Israeli positions. How much occupied territory, for example, should Israel relinquish? When and how ought the Geneva talks to be reconvened? What role should the United Nations play? What about the Palestinians...
...Interlocutor (embarrassed...