Word: sooner
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...Thursday had informed the U.S., along with the other NATO allies, of the impending crackdown and the number of Soviet officials involved, Safire appeared to have been tipped off by a talkative U.S. official. It could hardly have been a deliberate leak aimed at forcing the French to act sooner, since the machinery for the mass ouster was already in motion by the time Safire's column appeared, but French officials did not hide their irritation at Washington's inability to keep a secret...
...sooner had the French announced the mass expulsions than speculation began to mount that Mitterrand's decision was part of a concerted Western counterespionage effort made possible by the defection of a well-placed Soviet agent. Diplomats recalled that Britain's 1971 ouster of 105 Soviet personnel was triggered by a KGB defector who fingered his former colleagues. Moreover, the French acted a week after Britain threw out two Soviet diplomats and a journalist. In Rome a month earlier, Italian police had arrested the deputy director of the Rome Aeroflot office as he was obtaining microfilmed plans...
Arafat had appeared to understand the urgency of the situation as well as Hussein did. Israel is engaged in a crash program of building Jewish settlements in the West Bank, whose population at the moment is 96% Arab. By 1987, if not sooner, however, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin expects to increase the Jewish population of the territory from 35,000 to 100,000, making the Israeli colonization essentially irreversible...
...dealing with somatizers, notes Ford, is that "physicians on the whole have no training in the identification, diagnosis and treatment of these patients. Typically, the patient's complaint is taken at face value." Physical test after test follows with uniformly negative findings, though, warns Ford, "enough tests and, sooner or later, the patient will have a real disease caused by the process of diagnosing and treating." Doctors must be taught to recognize the hidden meaning behind many physical complaints, says Ford: "It's like two languages being spoken...
...simply, the best candidates for the offices they seek. Prejudiced whites in Chicago and New York, in their fearful haste to bar Blacks from positions of political authority, condemn residents of those cities to suffer under the uninspired, under-prepared men of mediocrity they throw in as buffers. The sooner demagogic purveyors of racial fears like Epton and Koch are made unwelcome, the sooner "merit" can truly improve the quality of leadership in America...