Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab delegations or in the Jordanian delegation. When pressed, he said in his press conference that if they were identifiable members of the P.L.O. leadership, that he would object. He went on to add immediately, because the P.L.O. are publicly committed to the destruction of Israel. I cannot speak for Mr. Begin [but] if the Palestinian leaders adopted that position [acceptance of Israel's existence] or espoused the U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338*as a basis for negotiations at Geneva, we would immediately commence plans to begin talks with the Palestinian leaders. I hope that Mr. Begin would accept...
...former Secretary figures that he has a vested interest in an American foreign policy that works. So he will watch what happens in the world very, very carefully. In the future he may feel compelled to speak more publicly than he has so far. But he is convinced that the best men available have followed him into office, that they deserve more time to test their ideas, that the world still is receptive to skillful diplomacy...
Still, writes Author Roy Hoopes, "1 doubt if the nation has ever been as united in spirit or purpose before or since." Hoopes interviewed nearly 200 Americans for this oral history of the home front. Many of them speak wonderingly of an almost innocent exhilaration triggered by World War II, and how different it was from Viet Nam. Says Stephen Ailes, who came up from Martinsburg, W. Va., to serve in the Office of Price Administration: "You just routinely worked till midnight; you worked Saturdays. You always had in mind the fact that all these guys were in foxholes someplace...
...which the conquistadors struggled in their desperate search for gold. If Kinski were a different kind of actor, Aguirre's steadily increasing megalomania might have provided a dynamic for the film, but he fails to project the reasons for his ruthless brutality. (The problem may be that the actors speak in German, and subtitles hardly aid in character development, but is more likely that Kinski's was the kind of acting Herzog asked for.) If the monk had been an impartial observer--although this is historically unlikely, since the church served as one of the main instruments of colonization...
...addition to 14 other novels, hundreds of poems, dozens of short stories, dramas, translations, criticism and scientific articles about butterflies, Nabokov produced one of the finest autobiographies in the English language. First published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence, the book was expanded and reissued in 1966 as Speak, Memory...