Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Verbal Trickery. In its tough stand, the White House wanted to burst whatever illusions Begin might harbor about the U.S. position. To achieve that, of course, the statement need not have been public. But the Administration also wanted to preserve its role as mediator by emphasizing the distance between its view of the shape of a possible settlement and Jerusalem's. Moreover, Begin's line is now being vocally defended by many U.S. Jews, which is causing growing friction between the White House and the American Jewish community. Thus the State Department broadside was also intended...
...Administration is persuaded that the Caracas regime can play a valuable role as a bridge-one of Pérez's favorite words-to the nonindustrial countries. The U.S., says a White House aide, needs "the support of a key leader of the Third World on a lot of major is sues. Venezuela has influence where we have none or little." Carter listened with interest to Pérez's advocacy of a new economic deal for the Third World because "for better or for worse," as one U.S. diplomat put it, Washington recognizes...
...part special on King scheduled to air Nov. 6 and 7. Although the 1965 Selma civil rights march, led by King, took place in Alabama, the cast and 300 extras were restaging it in southern Georgia last week. Earlier, to get more insight into the man whose role he was playing, Winfield had sought the advice of Martin Luther King Sr. Recalls Winfield wryly: "Daddy said to me, 'There was only one Martin.' End of conversation." · Washington's best-known bookworm has stacks of new reading for the supper table. First Child Amy Carter...
...likely that the long-separated wife of former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy will ever gain the fame, or notoriety, of those other American McCarthys. But in her own gentle way. Abigail McCarthy is making a deserved and distinctive name for herself as the most perceptive analyst of the precarious role of women in the male-dominated world of U.S. politics. First in her well-crafted autobiography. Private Faces/Public Places, now in her slim first novel, Abigail McCarthy skillfully details the insecurities and ambiguities that tear at the women behind-or sometimes deftly leading-their public...
Neither the author nor her fictional women find that backstage role wholly satisfying. Bitsy Pryor, the efficient wife of a Democratic Senator, is appalled at the prospect that he may run for President in 1976; it would kill her budding career as a radio and TV advocate of women's rights. After 40 years in Washington, Miss Emily, wife of a retiring Senate chairman, is terrified at having to return to a home she no longer knows. Reporter Tiana Briggs, who turned her society column into solid news, aches for the son she lost in a broken marriage...