Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost innocuous beginning. In mid-August, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded (from yet undisclosed evidence) that Soviet combat forces, as distinct from advisers, were in Cuba. At that point, the matter might have been quietly clarified and even settled by Moscow and Washington with some adroit negotiating. But the Administration lost control of the issue when it conveyed the intelligence findings to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an Idaho Democrat who faces a tough re-election fight next year. Church went public with the matter on Aug. 30, and did so in an unexpectedly bellicose...
...figure out why we had mounted a big operation for that purpose. The officer, presuming that the President's security adviser could not be totally mad, reported this to his superiors, who started a hunt for the animal. The troops in the field, convinced that Washington had lost its mind, reported they knew nothing about any kidnaped baby water buffalo. The Pentagon refused to believe I had made my comment lightly. Back went a query asking to make sure by checking the helicopter for buffalo dung...
...with whom his office brought him into contact. I eventually learned that it was safest to begin a battle with Laird by closing off all his bureaucratic or congressional escape routes, provided I could figure them out. Only then would I broach substance. But even with such tactics, I lost as often as I won. John Ehrlichman considered mine a cowardly procedure and decided he would teach me how to deal with Laird. Following the best administrative theory of White House predominance, Ehrlichman, without troubling to touch any bureaucratic or congressional bases, transmitted a direct order to Laird to relinquish...
That may be so, but Mexicans will insist that such negotiations involve a true and fair partnership, allowing both sides to profit. South of the border it is still remembered that Mexico lost half its territory to the U.S. in 1848. There is also the bitter memory of American companies that exploited the country's cheap labor and abundant resources during the 31-year reign of Dictator Porfirio Diaz, whose excesses touched off the revolution that led to the creation of the present republic. Those episodes have fostered a reflexive suspicion about yanqui motives that lingers to this day. Says...
...shaped by a leftist successor, Lázaro Cárdenas, the P.R.I, was designed to prevent political disagreements from bursting into violence by drawing organizations that represented workers, campesinos and civil servants into its leadership. This corporatist approach has enjoyed remarkable success at the polls: the P.R.I, has never lost a major election, or even been threatened by the country's feeble opposition parties. But the price of P.R.I, dominance has been high. Says a prominent Mexican lawyer: "Politics has been the restricted domain of the official party for so long that most people are completely turned off. They have absolutely...