Word: liaisoning
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...coffeehouses of university towns, they are called Spontis-for spontaneous radicals who do not bother with ideology but simply want to destroy the present system, regardless of the consequences. "It's a bit frightening," observes a security officer from a Western country who serves as a liaison in Bonn. "When we kick down doors looking for these people at home, we find almost always tons of literature-wall-to-wall Marx and Marcuse. But here, they find nothing-no literature, just weapons...
...secure, requests for delays. Lacking any provision for contempt of court, German judges have generally been powerless to control these lawyers; disbarment is a seldom used procedure. Using the privileged status of the attorney-client relationship as a cloak, about a dozen of these lawyers have served-illegally-as liaison between imprisoned terrorists and their colleagues still at large...
Even her designated function, head of public liaison, makes her Ms. Outside. Costanza, 44, former vice mayor of Rochester-and not coincidentally one of the first officeholders in New York to support Jimmy Carter for President-has the nation for a client. She and her staff of ten provide White House access for groups of every stripe. The range is unlimited: Texas farm workers who will come this week to seek advice on unionizing, businessmen opposing a consumers' agency, battered wives pleading for protective legislation. Gloria Steinem and other feminists, Poet Allen Ginsberg, Private Slovik's widow, doctors...
Vance's reception in Peking, reported TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, was polite but noticeably restrained. The airport greeting was a crisp handshake from Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Huang Chen, chief of Peking's liaison office in Washington: no band, no honor guard. On the drive into the city, Vance's Red Flag limousine passed thousands of cheering demonstrators-who, as it turned out, were celebrating, for the third day in a row, the successful completion of the awaited party Congress...
...step toward the "historic compromise" that Italy's Communists have long dreamed of-a coalition government that could lead to all-out Communist control? Or was it merely a temporary liaison-a "seaside compromise," as some Italians were calling...