Word: intransigente
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Replying to Goldberg next day, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dismissed the U.S. suggestion as a "soap bubble," announced a step-up in aid to Hanoi, branded Washington a "barbarous" aggressor, and demanded nothing less than an American pullout from Viet Nam as the price for peace. Gromyko's...
History's Backwater. Modernism flowered at a time when Catholicism seemed to be a backwater of intellectual history and the Pope was the intransigent "prisoner of the Vatican." By far the most famous modernist was Abbe Alfred Loisy (1857-1940), a Frenchman, whose book The Gospel and the Church...
Boob a Minute. Proxmire's new finesse was only one ingredient in the lending measure's passage. November defeats eliminated not only Douglas, the most intransigent proponent of the bill, but also Banking and Currency Chairman A. Willis Robertson of Virginia, its stubbornest opponent. Robertson's successor...
Thieu, who takes a tough line toward negotiations with the Viet Cong, has been known to say: "First we beat the hell out of them, then we talk with them." Nonetheless, with a popularly elected government in power, with political stability reasonably assured, and with the army concentrating on the...
Somehow, amid all the jostling for platform time, the combatants also managed to make themselves heard. Jordan's King Hussein, who had not been anxious to go to war but gave the Israelis a respectable fight, demanded that Israel be condemned and that it give up "the fruits of...