Word: jordaning
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...task of cobbling together another coalition government promises to be more arduous than usual. Whatever emerges as Italy's 44th postwar government, it will almost certainly be a transitional stop on the way to the 45th. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Jordan Bonfante and Barry Kalb/Rome
Evert Lloyd, who lost to Navratilova in last year's final, fell to unseeded Kathy Jordan in this year's third round, ending a stunning run of consistency unappreciated before and nearly unfathomable now. Counting every major tournament she ever entered-35 Wimbledons, U.S. Opens, French Opens and Australian Opens since 1971-this was the first time Evert Lloyd failed to reach the semifinals. "I never realized," said Navratilova in hushed awe. For a year and a half Martina has been the best women's tennis player; for ten years Evert Lloyd has defined what that means...
America is blessed by these immigrants. We can learn so much from them. My second-grade class this year has children from Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Cuba, the Philippines, Korea, Thailand and Lebanon; I also have Irish and Polish and English Americans, a first-generation Italian and a child from Sri Lanka. We all speak English. I tell them, "Keep your language and your customs, but learn American ways. You are the peacemakers of tomorrow and will build the bridge to better world understanding...
...strains were exacerbated earlier this year when Arafat talked at length with Jordan's King Hussein about the possibility that Hussein would, in association with the Palestinians, enter into negotiations with Israel and the U.S. on President Reagan's proposal for a confederal relationship between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Assad bitterly opposed the U.S. initiative. His objections: it did not envision a significant negotiating role for the Syrians, nor did it address itself to the problem of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war and annexed...
Last week, seated in a cramped but elegantly furnished office in the Cortes, Gonzalez gave a wide-ranging interview to TIME'S Paris bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante, and Jane Walker. Excerpts...