Word: midweekly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midweek there was a welcome shift away from finger pointing to genuine selfcriticism. The National Security Council called in some academic experts on Iran, including University of Chicago Professor Marvin Zonis, for a closed-door seminar on the lessons of the past few months. At the CIA there were a number of informal post-mortems on what one participant acknowledged had been a "massive intelligence failure...
...that the Israelis would violate the spirit, if not the letter, of Camp David by announcing plans to thicken their settlements while the Washington talks were still going on. Indeed, the move came as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman were returning to Washington at midweek to resume negotiations with Egypt and the U.S. Moreover, in a startling statement that was calculated to antagonize not only Carter but every leader in the Arab world, Begin proposed that his own office, as well as that of his Foreign Minister, should be moved from Government Hill in West Jerusalem...
...midweek John Paul spent the afternoon visiting his papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome. The village crowds, accustomed to a more distant papal style, roared with approval as he stood up to wave from the back of his open black Mercedes. On the balcony of the bedroom in which Pope Paul VI died last August, John Paul told the crowd with a smile: "Our first meeting has been very warm, very noisy, and I hope very religious...
...Smith did pledge to "liquidate" those organizations inside Rhodesia that were associated with the external guerrilla movements. Until now, his government had boasted about its release of political detainees and the freedoms enjoyed in Rhodesia by Patriotic Front civilian sympathizers. But no more. By midweek the government had arrested more than 200 blacks thought to be linked to the guerrillas and detained them without trial. As he tried to rally his white constituency, Smith raged that Nkomo, who had readily accepted responsibility for the destruction of the Rhodesian airplane, was "a monster" who had gone "beyond the pale...
...position on doctrine is likely to please the Curia, which could use some cheering up. As a senior Vatican prelate conceded, John Paul's election "was like a report card with a flunking grade for the Curia." Seeking to salve bruised Curial egos, the Pope observed in a midweek speech to the Cardinals about the Curia and the Vatican: "It is not difficult to recognize our inexperience in so delicate a sector of church life. We promise to treasure the suggestions that will come to us from our worthy co-workers." One of his first acts was to reappoint...