Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even be able to begin thinking about reining in his defense expenditures, which now devour $2 billion, or 25% of the gross national product (v. $3.6 billion, or 30% for Israel). Sadat is hard-pressed even to feed his 37 million people, 96% of whom are crowded in a narrow, seven-mile strip running 500 miles along the Nile. Egypt's trade deficit has been revised upward to $4 billion this year, and short-term debts to commercial banks have risen to about the same amount...
...manifesto flatly rejected as a model for Portugal a "socialist society of the East European type." Yet it warned that the country "will be fatally led" to precisely that model unless it rids itself of "a political leadership that obstinately believes that a vanguard with a very narrow social basis can make the revolution on behalf of all the people." This cannot be achieved, the document went on, "with the present leadership team, in view of its lack of credibility and manifest inability to govern...
These thoughts were idealistic but politically naive. Limited both in knowledge and experience, they lacked the perspective to weigh the radical theories they absorbed. "The men of the M.F.A. view the world through a narrow spectrum of revolutionary struggle," notes a veteran Western diplomat in Lisbon. "Many of them are very emotional. It is not uncommon to see tears form as they talk about excesses of the great landholding families...
Barrage of Noes. After strong Administration lobbying, the Senate had voted to repeal the embargo last May by a narrow 41-40, but Ford lobbied even harder with the House. He pleaded with key Congressmen for their support of a major NATO ally. To help the bill's chances, he watered it down, providing mainly for a restoration of the $ 185 million in arms that Turkey had already contracted to buy. When the measure came to a roll-call vote last week, a series of ayes flashed on the House's electronic screen, and Ford led. Then...
Kissinger himself is still hopeful that the gaps will be narrow enough by mid-August to allow him to return to the Middle East to wrap things up with some fast shuttle diplomacy. Indeed, some Washington observers of the negotiations believe that Jerusalem and Cairo may simply be spinning wheels until he gets there. On Israel's part, at least, there is certainly a serious matter of timing involved. Israeli negotiators must decide whether it makes sense for them to accept any agreement prior to the convention of the U.N. General Assembly in September. One key item...