Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Baker's irritation with State's initial position -- and in marked contrast to the flailing that has characterized the Administration's various proposals for bailing out the nation's savings and loans -- nothing about the change in Salvador policy was undertaken hysterically. To a person, those who have worked...
Unless postponement is tactically useful. Since the U.S. began discussions with the P.L.O. last December, Israel has heard little from the Administration's highest reaches. The result has been frantic maneuvering in Jerusalem, movement that may make the next step toward negotiations easier. Rather than react to an American agenda...
Later, in 1975, Bush persuaded President Ford to name Baker Under Secretary of Commerce. It was then that Baker first learned how to play the inside game. Ford was locked in a struggle for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination with Ronald Reagan. From his perch at Commerce, Baker was trying...
In the end, Quayle and Castro exchanged nothing more than an occasional glance. After Perez was sworn in, Castro, flanked by a huge entourage, swept out of the hall while a crowd of Venezuelans gawked and cheered. Quayle, under strict instructions from the White House not to send any inadvertent...
Shamir's sneak preview, however, offered nothing really new. Palestinian autonomy and negotiations on a final settlement five years later are ideas drawn from the 1978 Camp David accords, and Arab leaders, except Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, have adamantly rejected them all along. Nor are any leaders suddenly likely to...