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...describe their ties with Israel not as "a special relationship" but as a more balanced "normal relationship with a special character." The change was undoubtedly speeded by the 1973 oil embargo and consequent fuel shortages in Europe, but it was inevitable as time passed. Younger Germans in particular are loath to shoulder continuing blame for outrages that occurred before they were born...
...sure, the Labor government is loath to risk any major changes before the country's June 5 referendum on the Common Market for fear that its supporters will retaliate by voting no on the question of remaining in Europe. Although such time-buying may be politically unavoidable, it still accentuates the impression of rudderlessness. Many Britons share the alarm of Professor Hugh Clegg, member of the Labor government's Prices and Incomes Board in 1966-67, who recently warned that Britain is "spot on course for disaster and still accelerating." He added: "Let me say quite clearly what...
...counsel John Dean had begun to talk to the Watergate prosecutors. Nixon knew that the renewed bombing would spur violent criticism in Congress, in the country at large and all over the world. He also knew that Dean's testimony was going to make life difficult for him. Loath to deal with simultaneous severe criticism on two major fronts, he rescinded his approval of the raids. The North Vietnamese infringements continued unchecked...
...years with such photographers as Bill Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, and, to some extent, Robert Frank, and these last three are, indeed, the photographers Evans named as his favorite young photographers. In his humble, gentlemanly manner--he even asked the audience's permission to be seated--he seemed loath to discuss his "competitors" further for fear of becoming "invidious," or "unethical...
Individualists all, Evangelicals are loath to construct a bureaucracy, and many of them think that church movements should adopt a low profile at a time when the secular world seems hypnotized by power. Nonetheless, after days of debate in Mexico City, the committee set up a loose minimal structure. More important, they decided to appoint a full-time executive secretary and offered the job to a Third World churchman, the Rev. Gottfried B. Osei-Mensah, 40, pastor of the Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya. Once a sales engineer with Mobil Oil in Ghana, Osei-Mensah holds a bachelor of science...