Word: offendable
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...Bitburg, if we don't do what we jointly planned, we will deeply offend the feelings of our people. There are letters on my desk that are heartrending outcries. A woman wrote how her 17-year-old brother was picked up and taken away with his classmates by military authorities and put into an SS uniform in which he was later killed. The Germans consist of more than minds. They also have hearts and souls...
...meantime, the White House also managed to offend the West Germans. Kohl had been bypassed when Washington originally announced that Reagan would be in West Germany on V-E day, May 8. Later, without consult- ing Kohl, the White House announced that the President would address the European Parliament instead. The seeming ineptitude surrounding the Reagan plans is particularly surprising since it is the final project being handled by Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, the President's usually masterly impresario, be- fore he leaves the White House for private life...
Mubarak gambled that he could change the President's mind in part because he genuinely fears that a chance to reopen negotiations is slipping away, and in part because he reasoned that a re-elected Reagan would be more willing to risk an initiative that might offend American supporters of Israel. His miscalculation drew the expectable jeers from radical Arabs: the Libyan news agency JANA scoffed that his reception in Washington had lowered Mubarak "to his natural position as an employee of the U.S. State Department." Reagan sought to soften the blow by lavishing praise on Mubarak's peace efforts...
...Chinese are careful not to portray their new Ostpolitik in terms that might offend Moscow. Still, Soviet diplomats in Peking have reportedly complained that China is trying to drive a wedge between the Soviets and their allies. Whatever the motive, the bold gambit in Moscow's backyard may reflect China's growing self-confidence in international affairs...
Mondale hecklers offend the voters' sense of fairness; the size of Reagan's lead triggers "a perverse feeling in people"; and "media that profit from heightened interest in a contest" play up "the first reports of narrowing gaps in the polls," helping to make it a closer race...