Word: occasionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the close of the 24-hour visit, the Americans had little to say, but the Vietnamese, who are in desperate economic straits and are anxious to reduce their dependence on the Soviet Union, seized the occasion to renew their plea for rapprochement with the West. Declared Foreign Minister Nguyen...
The moment when all hopes for a period of healing dissolved can be precisely charted. It was on a weekend in the middle of April 1973. On Friday the 13th, the predominantly Democratic Federal City Club of Washington, in a gesture of good will, bestowed its public service award on...
There was, hindsight makes plain, something that should have alerted me early in 1973. It was the behavior of Nixon. I found it difficult to get him to focus on foreign policy. Memorandums came back without the plethora of marginal comments that indicated they had been carefully read. On at...
That Saturday evening, April 14,1 attended the White House correspondents' annual dinner. A point is usually reached in an Administration-it came rather early in Nixon's-where the President, normally the guest of honor, feels that his daily harassment by the media exhausts his tolerance for...
It is always heartening to see an art revived, especially when you have forgotten how much pleasure it affords. The art of buck passing, for instance. It popped to life in New York a couple of weeks ago when Bruce Caputo, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, was caught as...