Word: liberationism
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Nearly all great American plays are about families. The comedies, like You Can't Take It with You, celebrate the ability of disparate relatives to unify against the outside world. The tragedies, like A Long Day's Journey into Night, mourn the often unbridgeable chasm between intimacy and true affection...
At the close of their three-day meeting, those gathered in Casablanca agreed only to send emissaries to mediate between several feuding Arab states, including Syria and Iraq, and to condemn Iran for its role in the five-year-old Persian Gulf war. In their final communiqué, the summiteers blandly...
The pastoral letter from El Salvador's Roman Catholic bishops was pessimistic. It cited the "grave situation affecting almost all Salvadorans . . . due most of all to the violence of war" and warned of an imminent escalation in the country's six-year civil conflict. The bishops pointed with concern to...
Without warning, the fickle thermostat that governs Middle East diplomacy seemed to click from freeze to thaw last week. Conciliatory messages about the prospects for peace floated back and forth between the leaders of Israel and Jordan. Top-ranking officials of Syria, Jordan and Egypt met in various locales to...
The pro-Arafat P.L.O. hierarchy was more worried about the understandings reached in Saudi Arabia between Jordan and Syria. The main concern: that the two countries might agree on a format for dealing with the Israelis without P.L.O. participation. To try to ensure against that eventuality, Arafat's Tunis-based...