Word: parleyed
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...these families, and what it -- I mean it's heartbreaking." Her voice cracks just a bit, tears come to her eyes, and she apologizes. She is no Eleanor Roosevelt in health shoes, no Lady Bird Johnson rafting down the Rio Grande or Rosalynn Carter with a briefcase, ready to parley. She is so delicate that she seems to bend with each breath. To her critics, she is the most infuriating, contradictory and perplexing person in this Administration. Yet she could emerge as one of the most notable First Ladies in history...
...made its way through a Congress more intent on protecting special interests in the U.S. than on helping the Caribbean. Last year, Caribbean exports to the U.S. dropped by 23%, a decline due in large part to a poor market in sugar, bauxite and cocoa. After a 90-min. parley with leaders of nine Caribbean nations last week on Grenada, Reagan promised to push a number of new economic initiatives...
Reagan's evolution from hard-line Soviet baiter to softer-line summiteer dates to an Oval Office parley last fall with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Says a White House aide: "Reagan's notion of personal diplomacy took off from that meeting." He was nudged along by Wife Nancy, a believer in the irresistible magic of her husband's personality, and by master Image Maker Michael Deaver. Both felt deeply that Reagan's warmonger image...
...begin negotiating a ban on weapons in space. The U.S. accepted, but said that it also wanted to talk about earthbound nuclear arms. Last week it became clear that neither side was willing to meet the other's terms, and that the prospects for a fall Vienna parley were growing...
Moscow offers a September parley; the U.S. says...