Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat spoke only hours after last week's meeting in Brussels between U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and high-level Egyptian and Israeli officials ended with the two Middle Eastern countries still at an impasse. But nobody sounded alarmed. Israeli officials said vaguely that they expected the negotiations to resume soon, and even though the Egyptians had spoken of a cooling-off period lasting a couple of months, they stressed that the peace process may be irreversible...
...Israelis too appeared to welcome the diplomatic pause. Government officials spoke of a plan to establish 20 more Jewish settlements in the West Bank over the next four years, but when members of Gush Emunim, the fanatical religious organization, tried to found two illegal settlements on the hills above Jerusalem last week, soldiers quickly evicted them. Many officials grumbled over a statement by Egypt's Acting Foreign Minister Boutros Ghali that "a political confrontation will occur during negotiations to define the powers of a Palestinian regime." Though this has been implicit in the Egyptian position all along, Israeli officials...
...CHAI SPOKE a word of greeting, praised Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai for beginning negotiations, mentioned Presidents Nixon and Ford, and thanked Carter, Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He added that normalization would "certainly play an active role in combatting the expansion and aggression of hegemonism and upholding peace and stability in Asia and the world." He expressed the belief that all would go well, as well as the conviction that this was a momentous and great occasion. He ended by toasting the normalization and friendship between the two countries and the health of America's leaders...
...have made of an impact on the collective memory of the '50s, but at the time his impact on a generation of people growing up in America was quite strong. Like Brando, Dean's characters were vaguely discontented with the way things were in this country. But Dean spoke more specifically to the problems that adolescents faced in this country. In a nation where adolescence was seen as a peaceful prelude to adulthood and respectability. Dean's characters seemed to be saying that it was okay to be confused and angry growing up in America; and that the problems that...
Both Goyette and Keenan said they last spoke with RSKU officials in October...