Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comedic gifts but his stature as one of the finest film actors of his era. The film itself is drawing the kind of intense audiences that may mean it will turn into a cult object. Young people, themselves shaped by their early, total immersion in television, seem to respond powerfully to Chance, admiring the way worldly power simply seems to flow to him despite his passivity and his defects?he is both simple-minded and illiterate...
Nevertheless, there is a huge obstacle to close ties with the U.S.: Somali pride. It was badly damaged by the ignominious defeat the army suffered in the Ogaden two years ago, and President Siad Barre was angry that Washington did not respond immediately with help after he threw out the Soviets. "The thing you must remember in dealing with Somalis is that they are a warrior race that sprang from one of the harshest environments on earth," says a Western diplomat. "Nobody is going to come in here and tell them what to do." If the price...
Nonetheless, many Frenchmen have criticized President Giscard for being painfully slow to respond to events in Afghanistan. His first reaction, mumbled at a New Year's party for French reporters, was that the Soviet move may not have been "premeditated." Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet later tried to justify the equivocal French response by noting (incorrectly) that "France buys more oil from the Soviet Union than from Iran." Even the Giscard-Schmidt communiqué appeared indecisive to some. "It says to the Soviets, 'The next time you pull an Afghanistan you will be punished,' " complained...
...most courteous man I have ever met. I remember one time in Europe we had finished taping, and the sound man really did a terrible job. Dan wrote him a note and thanked him for a job well done anyway." Adds another coworker: "He genuinely likes people, and they respond to him. He is not uneasy about being among regular folk...
...inclination to respond to every allegation--erroneous allegation--that Senator Kennedy has made," Carter began. So far, psychologically correct: a continuation of the Rose Garden strategy that has proved so effective and so desperately frustrating to Kennedy, Carter had maintained the cool, unflappable image of a leader above the fray...