Word: metting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three buildings in Washington, took more than 100 hostages and, among other things, tried to halt the showing of a $17 million movie epic called Muhammad, Messenger of God at theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Though the tone of the movie was reverential, the producers had met endless difficulties in making it, including expulsion of the film crew from Morocco. In 1980 Saudi Arabia vehemently protested a British-American TV "drama documentary" called Death of a Princess, which told the story of the 1977 executions of a young married Saudi princess and her lover. Some Muslims have...
Public service became an addiction for him long ago. It isn't for want of a warm personal life. He remains gooey over his wife of 21 years, Kathleen Emmet Darman, a writer who has a Ph.D. in literature. They met, by his account, as teenagers at a "Beacon sociable," where Brahmin calves learned to dance under proper supervision. He sought for years to get her attention, even using ploys that could later be called Darmanesque. She gently scoffs at this romantic notion, conceding only that they met as graduate students at a dinner he arranged for that purpose. They...
That he was there at all was due to James Baker, whom he had met at Commerce. Though the new chief of staff, Baker was something of an alien. He needed loyal, experienced professionals as a bulwark against right-wing rivals. Darman filled that role eagerly. Eagerly, but not comfortably. The older Reaganauts sometimes suspected him of ideological subversion. He in turn took a grandiose view of himself as an all-purpose antidote to the amateurism of some of his elders. "Every single thing that moved," he says, "I felt responsible for." His influence rose steadily...
Bush, on his first overseas trip as U.S. chief executive, met for lunch with French President Francois Mitterrand. He also met with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita; King Hussein of Jordan; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak; Chaim Herzog, president of Israel and leaders from from Portugal and Thailand...
Again he looks around. This time he turns and whispers, "These are the most anti-social people I have ever met...