Word: rebuff
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...reelection, omitting the customary expression of confidence, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled somewhat warmer greetings to Warsaw's leaders as the Poles celebrated their national day last week. The message declared the Polish party "undoubtedly capable of rallying all the working people and stirring them to a resolute rebuff to anarchy and counterrevolution...
...Vietnamese and on its northern with the Soviets to launch such an adventure, which would surely rupture its ties with the U.S. Peking's goal, in the judgment of China-watchers, is to weaken Taiwan diplomatically, politically and militarily until it will no longer feel strong enough to rebuff overtures for negotiations...
...part of my body!" Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich exclaimed in Washington. The Russian é migré maestro could be excused the hyperbole. Other Soviet figures have sought artistic freedom in the West, but few could match the poignant symbolism of last week's defection drama. In a stunning rebuff to Kremlin cultural politics, the son and grandson of the Soviet Union's most celebrated contemporary composer the late Dmitri Shostakovich, decided to join Rostropovich in exile and petition the U.S. State Department for asylum...
...diatribe, he adopted a far more moderate tone. He alluded only obliquely to the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968. "But one would have to assume," he added, "that the Polish Communists, with the support of all true Polish patriots," would be able "to give a fitting rebuff to the designs of the enemies of the socialist system." The statement seemed to offer Warsaw's leaders one more chance to restore order on their own. Shortly after the speech came another hopeful sign: TASS announced the end of the Warsaw Pact maneuvers...
...into the State Department building through its underground garage, thus keeping his visits private. But last week the Ambassador was informed that henceforth he must enter via the front door like all the other envoys. When his limousine nevertheless approached the garage as usual, it was turned back, a rebuff that seemed to underscore the verbal bellicosity...