Word: shultz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, Administration officials kept delivering bleak predictions. Appearing before a Senate subcommittee, Secretary of State George Shultz explicitly tied the fate of El Salvador to the rest of the isthmus, including Mexico, "with which we have a long border." The testimony of the usually cautious Shultz surprised reporters and Congressmen alike and served as perhaps the best evidence of the Administration's tougher stance. Nestor D. Sanchez, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary, told House members that the Salvadoran army might run out of ammunition in 30 days. William Schneider Jr., Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, confirmed the alarming...
...plan or an effort by King Hussein of Jordan to join future negotiations. Though many Palestinian moderates were encouraged by Arafat's strength at the meeting and by his ability to keep the organization united, the result was murky. Snapped an uncharacteristically caustic U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz: "We are constantly following the will-o'-the-wisp of what Arafat thinks lately. It is always very, very difficult to pin down...
...officials hoped that King Hussein would still find a way "one fine day," as Shultz put it, to enter negotiations over the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. He is expected to meet with Arafat again soon, perhaps to pursue the idea of a Jordanian-West Bank peace delegation whose makeup would be acceptable to the P.L.O. Hussein has said that he would reach a decision by March 1. But with no action on the Lebanese withdrawal talks, that statement is likely to be delayed. Says an Administration official: "Hussein set that March 1 date when it looked like...
...attack Sudan or Chad. U.S. pilots were under orders to follow any Libyan aircraft that attacked their planes "back to the hangars," meaning that they should bomb the airfields from which the Libyan planes had taken off. But the crisis receded as quickly as it had arisen, leading Shultz to declare that "at least for the moment, Gaddafi is back in his box where he belongs."- By William E. Smith. Reported by Harry Kelly/Jerusalem and Johanna McGeary/Washlngton
This is all good news for most of the world's population. Secretary of State George Shultz called it "the economic story of the year" in congressional testimony, and added later in the week that it would help spur the world's economic recovery. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan predicted that the cuts will create "more winners than losers...