Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strauss appointment dispirited Vance for months. Never a conceptual person, more a man to work patiently toward a solution, Vance had found the constant sparring with Ideaman Brzezinski to be wearing. He had resisted Brzezinski's combative line toward the Soviets and opposed his successful campaign to speed up normalization with China. Whenever Vance chose to challenge Brzezinski by going directly to the President, as he did over the adviser's repeated alarms about Cubans in Africa, Vance always won. But such challenges were rare. "Cy's not a good infighter," conceded one of his admirers...
...soon obvious to Strauss that the hard-line approach was not going to work. First Begin, and then, to everybody's consternation, Sadat, ridiculed the President's proposal. Sadat nervously warned Strauss that all of Carter's success in the Middle East would be destroyed if the U.S. pushed any further on the Palestinian issue. Both leaders also viewed Carter as so politically weakened at home that they questioned his determination. Strauss, now convinced that the binding instructions had weakened his own credibility with Begin and Sadat, returned home angry at his rivals...
...great deal of the credit. He is the principal architect of Carter's human rights policy, identifying the U.S. with developing forces of change around the world. His views on the MX missile prevailed. He was the Administration's key operator on Nicaragua and pushed his firm line for Anastasio Somoza's ouster...
Everywhere, Carter turned the trip into a revivalist gathering down by the riverside. The standard line, which never failed to win roars of approval: "How many of you believe we live in the greatest nation on earth? . . . If you will help me, we can make the greatest nation on earth even greater...
...turmoil began with the resignation of Prime Minister Charan Singh, 76, only 15 minutes before a vote of confidence in the lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, that would have sent his 24-day-old coalition government down to certain defeat. In line for the job, or so he thought, was Ram, also official leader of the opposition. But India's President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy bypassed Ram and heeded the advice of outgoing Charan Singh to dissolve the Lok Sabha and call new national elections. He appointed Charan Singh as head of a caretaker government until elections...