Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accept?but neither Sadat nor Carter is enthusiastic about creating an independent state that would be politically, militarily and economically unstable. When the two leaders met last January in Aswan, Carter merely stated that the Palestinians should "participate in the determination of their own future." Sadat later approved this notion, which falls far short of self-rule. An Israeli-Egyptian compromise on this issue is therefore possible...
Instead of trumpeting the defection, U.S. officials have shrouded it in uncharacteristic secrecy. But in West Germany, newspapers are speculating that Pacepa was a CIA "mole" who had patiently burrowed into Rumania's inner circle some years ago. That notion has been firmly, but not convincingly, denied by CIA officials in West Germany, who insist that they had no hand in arranging Pacepa's flight to the West. "This was not a deep penetration operation in the traditional sense," remarked an intelligence source in Washington last week, without further elaboration...
...dollars in ten days if Kennedy just gave the word." Even if Kennedy doesn't give the word, some politicians believe that they can make him a candidate anyway. Last week a group of influential state chairmen met privately in Washington to discuss Kennedy's prospects. One notion was to use this winter's Democratic Party midterm conference as an opportune setting to whip up enthusiasm for Kennedy...
...Such actions," reports TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, "partially muzzle what had once been proclaimed an open Administration. On the other hand, the White House has suffered extensively from too much contradictory talk from too many high officials. Though he quakes at the notion of becoming known as 'the Enforcer,' Rafshoon does perform that function to a limited extent, as he tries to get everyone marching in the same direction on sensitive questions...
...cynical, pessimistic energy. His characters are all trapped and they can't figure out how to escape. Medoff's message is that they never will. Attendant on this basic theme are chilling caricatures of conventional morality, marriage and love, as well as a wholesale shredding of the notion that human dignity has any meaning. The play depends heavily on characterization, and one senses that if someone filled in the background which is only hinted at in the dialogue, you'd understand it a lot better...