Word: parleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarkable reversal for Arafat, who had been snubbed at the Arab parley in Amman just seven months earlier. Last week, as the Arab leaders attempted to forge a united response to the continuing intifadeh (uprising) by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the P.L.O. once again seemed to be bouncing back in Arab estimation. Earlier in the week, the Palestinian cause (though not the P.L.O.) received a boost from Secretary of State George Shultz during a five-day tour to promote a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "The fate of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism are interdependent," he said...
Despite widespread criticism, Washington continued last week to try to stem the spread of the epidemic by educating the population at large. Before the London parley ended, the chief U.S. delegate, Assistant Health Secretary Robert Windom, announced that the Administration plans to mail a new brochure on AIDS prevention to every household in the country later this year...
Although the leaders were short on specifics, one goal clearly was to diminish the influence of a key OAS member that was not invited to the parley: the U.S. Among other things, the so-called Group of Eight appeared to challenge Washington directly by suggesting that Cuba, which has been excluded for the past 25 years, should now be permitted to participate...
...almost invariably arouses anger. Last week it led to an acrimonious dispute that thoroughly shook the 2 1/2- year-old coalition government in Israel, with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir bitterly accusing Shimon Peres, his own Foreign Minister, of displaying a "peace-at-any-price" mentality for endorsing such a parley. Every U.S. Administration since the mid-1970s has opposed the idea, largely because it would mean participation by the Soviet Union. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were all deeply worried that this would give the Kremlin an irresistible opportunity not only to disrupt the quest for peace...
...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...