Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Considering the summit's theme of world poverty and hunger, the setting for the conference was a trifle incongruous. Cancún is a lush, 14-mile-long island resort near the Yucatan Peninsula, studded with gleaming hotels and condominiums. Delegation leaders were assigned identical two-room suites, complete with terrace and Jacuzzi, in the pyramid-shaped Sheraton Hotel, hard by the Caribbean. On the day before the conference began, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos went waterskiing, while Reagan and his aides lolled away half an hour on the beach...
...revenues because of the ongoing PATCO strike." The airline had been forced to cut scheduled flights by 25% as a result of the firings. Air New England's celebrated clientele, which had long used the airline for transportation to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod and other resort areas, are being picked up by Provincetown-Boston Airline and New York...
...about to cast the first stone." Europeans were equally cautious in their analysis. Noted one senior British diplomat: "The trend in almost all European countries is for a new leader, whether of the left or the right, to dilute the more radical policy pronouncements of his election manifesto and resort to good old pragmatism...
Fears are growing, however, that the rebellion could end in a violent confrontation between the settlers and Israeli troops. "The withdrawal should be as ugly as possible," says Menachem Digli, a former Israeli intelligence colonel who runs a resort south of Yamit. "It should leave a deep scar in the Israeli national memory." His reasoning: a fight would prevent future governments from making similar agreements about giving up the Golan Heights or the West Bank...
...about the dangers Bernard and Mathilde court by courting. Indeed, the script provides an opportunity for her to mirror their situation, which she avoids by tactful, exemplary retreat. Like her creator, she is content with compassion and the wisdom that accrues to those who observe life clearly and without resort to dubious generalizations. Bless them both...