Word: quests
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There is always a risk that Hussein could be inviting trouble if Jordan were to be associated with a Palestinian entity in the West Bank; the Palestinians might be tempted to try again to seize control of the whole country in their quest for a state of their own. But some P.L.O. radicals concede that they are reluctant to overthrow the King because, as one put it, "the minute there is an anti-Hussein coup in Amman we know the Israelis will move into Jordan, and we certainly don't want that." The monarch once despised by the Palestinians...
...their quest for change, the Coop Group and other reformers are going against 100 years of Coop tradition in a management that clearly believes in the correctness of their policy. One senior official, who wished to remain unidentified, states with conviction. "The only way we can try to serve the members is to maximize profits....The Coop just wouldn't operate effectively if it were a social club--it doesn't work that way." That's a lot of tradition to change...
...last week Washington and Peking issued a joint communique that to Taiwan and to U.S. conservatives, at least, read suspiciously like a sellout. In Shanghai II (viewed as the direct historical descendant of the Feb. 27, 1972, Shanghai Communique signed by President Nixon), China affirmed as "fundamental policy" the quest for "peaceful reunification" of Taiwan with China. For its part, the U.S. declared its intention, for the first time ever, to reduce and possibly eventually halt arms sales to Taiwan...
...quest for Lebanese independence may prove equally illusory. For Syrian President Hafez Assad, whose prestige was shaken by his army's poor showing against the Israelis, maintaining a presence in the Bekaa Valley would provide a buffer against any future Israeli advances toward Syria. It would also give Hafez Assad a larger role in the Arab world. "As long as Assad has a foot in Lebanon, he is an Arab leader," says American University's Perlmutter. "Without it, he isn't." The Israelis, who want to avoid the quagmire of an extended occupation, might nonetheless use their...
...quest for Mallot becomes an exorcising journey into Choubert's subconscious past. Wife becomes mother, man becomes boy. The conclusive finding: Choubert hated his father and adored his mother. Some critics regard Victims of Duty as a parody of both the Oedipal myth and the Oedipus complex. This off-Broadway revival blunts all the wickedly comic points. The people involved may be thanked for doing Ionesco, but not for doing him in. -T.E.K...