Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudis try to lure Egypt's Sadat back into the Arab fold
...explaining that he had no choice but to suspend the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy (see box). Sadat's decision won him plaudits among his estranged Arab neighbors. Morocco's King Hassan II and Jordan's King Hussein have joined the Saudis in trying to lure Sadat back to the Arab fold, and have let it be known that he might gain some badly needed oil money to shore up Egypt's economy. Explained Chedli Klibi, the Tunisian secretary-general of the Arab League, in an interview with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "In Islam...
...lure as many viewers as possible for 18 hours of TV time, the convention is overflowing with show business celebrities who will rival the politicians on the rostrum?a far cry from oldtime conventions where delegates lustily bargained, brawled and demonstrated to choose a nominee. This time there will be Pat Boone to pledge allegiance to the flag, Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker to sing the national anthem. Other contributions will be offered by Jimmy Stewart, Vikki Carr, Dorothy Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Donny and Marie Osmond. And the national anthem once again by Princess Pale Moon. But through...
...revival. He is well aware of the risk in seizing the national spotlight, if only for a week. "We have our warts," Young says with typical candor, "and we see them too." Republican Party leaders, in turn, hope to use Detroit as a theatrical backdrop in their bid to lure blue-collar workers and blacks away from the Democratic Party...
Griffiths thought the problem was Pfeiffer. Formerly vice president in charge of corporate communications and government relations at IBM and Jimmy Carter's first choice to be Secretary of Commerce, Jane Cahill Pfeiffer had helped lure Silverman to NBC in 1978, while acting as a management consultant to RCA. After signing on with NBC for a reported $1 million a year, Silverman admitted that his managerial experience was limited and hired Pfeiffer, whose salary and bonus last year came to $425,000, to handle mundane corporate affairs...