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...Tehran was allowing him into Iran under pressure from the threat of sanctions. It was the sort of face-saving gesture that has earned the Secretary-General a reputation as a master of diplomatic technicalities and procedures, but its effect was undercut by Vance. Asked if Waldheim's last-ditch diplomacy was the result of U.S. prodding, the Secretary of State forthrightly replied: "I think it is, and I'm delighted...
...symbol of the rigor and discipline France needs. Bankers fear that Barre's departure would diminish confidence in the French economy, frighten capital investors and cause the franc (which has held steady against the West German mark for more than a year) to tumble. In a last-ditch defense of his policies, Barre sounded an emphatic warning against false expectations. "You can replace me, but don't have any illusions," he told a meeting of Giscard's supporters among the members of parliament. "My successor, whoever he is, will be forced to show the same strictness." What...
...through territory that Carter had alienated. "In 1977 the Texas Farmworkers Union went to Washington, and Carter would not receive us," said Union Leader Antonio Orendain. "If next year weren't an election year, she never would have come." Said Dancy Buttery of Harlingen: "This is a last-ditch attempt to save face. Carter has had three years to make a difference. It's been a waste...
DUKE reached his epiphany, as it were, on his deathbed, when he converted to Catholicism. That's not American, that's Italian. That image sticks with you: Wayne gone puling in supplication to God, a pathetic last-ditch stab at atoning for a lifetime of atrocities before his bulldozer goes over the cliff. But it was too late for John Wayne. When he died he met 50,000 American ghosts, and quite a host of Vietnamese. They had a lynching party for John Wayne in Heaven last week. They ripped out his guts and they ripped out his spleen...
...could think of this as a last-ditch attempt to shore up international trade, but until it goes into effect it is too early to judge its impact," Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said yesterday...