Word: liaisoning
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...Russian candidate," it is Ali Sabry, 52, onetime Secretary General of Nasser's Arab Socialist Union (A.S.U.) and "honorary general" in charge of Egypt's Russian-built air-defense system. Sabry is a former Minister of Presidential Affairs, ex-Prime Minister and Egypt's chief liaison with the Soviet Union. The Soviets insisted that Sabry accompany Nasser to Moscow in July. They would clearly like to continue the relationship, which helps make Sabry the most powerful man in Egypt today. But he is far from being the most popular, especially among the military...
Racial and class accommodation is not a new approach for Young. Before he left his job as top aide to King's successor, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, he had always been the liaison between black demands and white recalcitrance. "Andy's a born conciliator," an S.C.L.C. staff member said...
...upgrade the position by bringing in a professional cop rather than another in the long line of politicians who had occupied it previously. After 18 years as an FBI agent, McNamara was not accustomed to dealing with the highly politicized role in which he was cast. As the police liaison with City Hall, he had to contend with political tampering from above and internal pressure "to take off the handcuffs" from below. He was the mediator and fixer in all personal police matters: off duty cops getting drunk, one cop screwing another's wife, extortion attempts on individual cops from...
...that things have gone too far one way. They want the balance readjusted. I hope the leaders of the young community will come forward and work with us." He and Sheldon Cohen, owner of the out-of-townNews Agency, began working with City Councilor Barbara Ackerman as the merchants' liaison with the street community. Their early plans included a possible Halfway House for the kids who would no longer be allowed to sleep in the Square or make a living panhandling...
Gone was the idea of liaison, of a Halfway House. The merchants, some of whose losses could be counted in the tens of thousands, wanted the Square cleaned up now. Trapped in a nightmare which seemed to promise street violence escalating in frequency and intensity, they wanted police action...