Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that the most knowledgeable and experienced foreign policy hand in an Administration not noted for diplomatic expertise had quit at a moment when the U.S. was trying to cope with a host of challenging global troubles. In the Middle East, the U.S. is desperately attempting to patch together some kind of settlement in Lebanon, for fear that the Israeli invasion of the country might set the whole region aflame-or, at minimum, irretrievably damage American interests in the Arab world. In Europe, the anger of American allies at U.S. opposition to their economic dealings with the Soviets threatens...
...only real competitor is the Olympic Games, also a quadrennial event. But, as soccer fans point out, the comparison is unfair-to the Olympics. After all, the World Cup has a single, dramatic, inexorable focus: 22 men, eleven on each side, mostly well-paid professionals, speeding around a patch of grass, chasing a black-and-white ball called a tango as quickly and as cleverly as their feet can carry them...
...tolerate any deal that allowed the Christian Phalangist militia, acting as Jerusalem's proxies, to destroy the P.L.O. in Beirut. That, Haig said, would make unification of Lebanon impossible. As the talk went on, Haig got the feeling that Israel would accept any Lebanese government that Habib could patch together, as long as it was stable, friendly to Israel and determined to prevent the return of the P.L.O. as a military force...
...time being there was no easy way to patch the breach opened by the lamentable Falklands war. As long as emotions remained a guiding force both in Britain and in Argentina, the only U.S. option, in the words of a State Department official, was "quiet encouragement." The best hope was that time would heal the wounds opened so brutally, that a rational appraisal of each country's best long-term interests would eventually prevail, and that the hard-won peace would not unravel. -By George Russell...
...other signatories to come to each other's aid in the event of aggression from outside the hemisphere, on the ground that the first use of force in the Falklands crisis did not come from a non-American nation. A few days earlier, Haig had tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory." Summing up the U.S. dilemma, Haig asked his fellow O.A.S. delegates: "Is there a country among us that has not counted itself a friend of both [Britain and Argentina]?" Overriding a plea by Haig, the O.A.S...