Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chile-governments he defends as merely "authoritarian"-on the unsure ground that these allies are relatively more free than fully "totalitarian" Communist societies. Lefever said he deplored the Carter Administration's tendency to chide certain U.S. allies publicly about their human rights violations. "I don't regard myself as a one-man Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval," he told the committee. "The channels of quiet diplomacy provide a more effective way to encourage greater respect for human rights." When asked by Cranston about his attitude toward official brutality in nations friendly to the U.S., Lefever bristled...
Reagan called the NATO council "a most successful meeting in a situation that could have been critical for us in regard to our allies." If indeed the European endorsement holds, it was a genuine achievement; it took hard bargaining by Haig in both Washington and Rome. Haig wanted NATO to offer the Soviets both a carrot and a stick-an American pledge to reopen arms control talks, accompanied by a unified Alliance get-tough policy made credible by defense spending. The day before he left Washington, Haig won Reagan's agreement, despite resistance from some hardliners. Soon after...
...choice, designed to give Labor more appeal among women and non-European Jews and to counter Peres' own relatively dovish image. In a meeting last week to hammer out the key top half of their final list, Peres sounded oddly hawkish himself. He accused Begin of inconsistency in regard to the occupied territories. "I don't accept Begin's statements," he said at one point. "He says...
...years before 1970, when the current round of hostilities began. It is a sad fact that there is an IRA. History shows, though, that oppressed people will fight if they must for their dignity and freedom, and the Irish are no different in this regard than the citizens of Zimbabwe or El Salvador...
...would be her 1966 marriage to Chicago Interior Designer Evangelos Metaxas, which also ended with a Greek Orthodox divorce after five years. "He could not live with women," she has explained. "We simply did not cohabit." The Governor's wife thus might claim lack of due discretion with regard to the Metaxas marriage. Formerly strict Catholic tribunals in the U.S. now accept a wide range of after-the-fact evidence that a spouse was psychologically incapable of entering a true marriage. (The number of U.S. annulments has jumped 5000% in the past decade, to more than...