Word: intransigente
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THE SOVIETS, of course, have been equally intransigent. Poland and Afghanistan were clearly expansionist moves despite all of Pravda's explanations to the contrary. The Soviet nostalgia over 50 years of relations, remembering American Soviet relations as years of American perniciousness broken only by Presidents Kennedy and Roosevelt is only...
During Lien's teenage years Lon Nol's anti-communist government troops battled against increasingly intransigent Khmer Rouge forces in the countryside. Although such conflicts occasionally disrupted Phnom Penh city life and the introduction of military conscription placed a cloud over the future for Lien's two brothers, her family...
To reduce casualties, the Israelis could stage a unilateral withdrawal to more defensible positions in the south. Such a tactic would probably lead to the partition of Lebanon, with Israel occupying the south and the Syrians remaining embedded in parts of the north and east. The Begin government may eventually...
So Reagan called ambassadors from the NATO countries into the White House on Wednesday morning for a 15-minute briefing and immediately afterward delivered his televised speech from the East Room. In it, he sought to depict the Soviets as the intransigent party and the U.S. as the flexible one...
Always a last resort, strikes have become an increasingly unattractive option for teachers. There were a record 242 strikes in the 1979-80 school year. The following year there were 191; so far this fall there have been about 65. Only some 20 strikes are still in progress today, and...