Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even veteran U.S. diplomats had to concede that it was a "masterful" performance. Said one State Department official: "Hard ball is what the entire process is all about. Carrington has proved that he can play that very well indeed." Thanks largely to the tactical skills of Britain's urbane, aristocratic Foreign Secretary, the sixth week of the Lancaster House Conference in London on Zimbabwe Rhodesia ended with a long awaited breakthrough: Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo after a four-day exclusion from the talks accepted a British-drafted constitution. In return Lord Carrington promised Western...
...suspicions: Lord Carrington just wants to show the world an acceptable constitution and then say that the Patriotic Front is refusing to implement this reasonable document because the interim arrangements are not to its satisfaction. They want to lift sanctions and pass legislation for a government that will play their tune. This is what I call the law of Moses. Carrington is the type of man who believes he can make no mistakes; he can only deal with the Muzorewas who love that treatment. If we get into the second phase with that sort of attitude, then...
...Demirel's supporters in the lower house by promising them Cabinet posts. That took away Demirel's majority, causing his government to fall. It also gave Ecevit just enough seats to become Premier with the support of his own party and independents. This time Demirel decided to play Ecevit's game, by luring several of the Premier's supporters over to the opposition. In the by-elections, Demirel's party campaigned for the five lower-house seats and 50 (out of 183) senate seats as if the voting were nationwide. It paid off. The Justice...
...developing downturn will become known as the Volcker Recession rather than as a product of Jimmynomics. Indeed, voters do seem concerned about the climbing cost of money. One night last week, when Volcker arrived at Washington's Kennedy Center for a preview showing of Tom Stoppard's play Night and Day, a woman approached him and said plaintively, "Please, don't let interest rates stay high for too long." Replied the Federal Reserve chairman, as he removed the cellophane from his 20? Antonio y Cleopatra Grenadier cigar: "We're trying our best...
Kevin O'Morrison displays an intuitive grasp of all this, and his Ladyhouse Blues is suffused with a contagious humanity. Mood, rather than action, dominates the evening, and the play is anchored with palpable authority...