Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat's gleaming red, white and black Presidential Special, Egyptian officials admitted their dismay at the recent course of events. On Sadat's trip to Washington last April, Carter had convinced him that Israel wanted a detailed and permanent resolution of the Middle East conflict rather than a mere termination of the long state of belligerency. Sadat felt that he had amply responded by his spectacular visit to Israel in November, his "sacred mission." But after that breakthrough, Egyptian officials argued, Israel balked at making any real concessions. "There has even been some retrogression," said one Egyptian diplomat, "since...
...situation; the problem that artistic efforts to describe it must avoid is that they can become completely flat, presenting the situation without involving the audience. Soweto has been in the news a great deal, after all, and the work-authors of Survival have to avoid boring the audience with mere rhetoric...
...keep the recovery rolling. Capital investment increased 8% in 1977, but Commerce Department surveys indicate a rise of only 4.5% this year. Townsend-Greenspan, a consulting firm headed by Alan Green, span, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, calculates that the rise may really be a mere 3%, and warns that even that puny an increase will not be achieved unless the dollar steadies enough to remove the threat...
Despite the charges and counter charges, both governments were avoiding actions that would lead to an open break. Dismissing the manifesto as a mere "atmospheric disturbance," the East German official envoy in Bonn, Michael Kohl, declared that the Communists "retain their interest in a continued improvement of relations." Last week West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stated soothingly that he felt the East German leadership "intends to continue the process of relaxation of tensions." In fact, there are good reasons for both sides to pursue Ostpolitik, Germany's form of detente. East Germany's stake in good relations involves...
Under different circumstances, Barre's classic political mix of threats and rewards might have won approval from French voters, but his promises seemed to lag behind reality. Unemployment stood at 1.05 million (4.8% of the work force); inflation, down a mere half-point since Barre took over 17 months ago, is still racing along at an annual rate of 9%, and the economic growth rate creeped at a sluggish 3%. The irony was that despite the falling out between Marchais and Mitterrand, the latest polls showed a 51% to 45% voter preference for the left. The two-phase elections...