Word: steadfast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Sadat and Carter conferred in Washington, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne was host at another kind of summit taking place in Algiers. There the Arab leaders of the so-called steadfast states, who oppose Sadat's peace initiative, were trying to develop a new strategy of their own. As at a previous meeting in Tripoli, the results were minimal...
...wealth has helped keep Egypt from bankruptcy for the past ten years, went quietly but cautiously along. He received too the tacit support of Jordan's King Hussein. But radical Palestinians denounced Sadat as a traitor and put a price on his head. A so-called summit of Arab "steadfast states" in Tripoli, convoked by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, froze relations with Egypt. Calling their bluff?without Egypt defending the southern front, another Arab war against Israel would be a hopeless enterprise?Sadat broke off relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. His critics, said Sadat, were "dwarfs...
...visit to Israel was denounced by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the Soviet Union, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the main rejection-front states, Iraq, Libya and Algeria. Last week the anti-Sadat forces gathered in Tripoli at the behest of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who called the participants the "steadfast states." (Others dubbed the conference the "sorehead summit.") A second meeting of the rejectionists is supposed to take place in Baghdad...
...over to accompany them home. In a country where husbands often leave churchgoing to their women, the scene is not unusual-except for one thing. The man is Enrico Berlinguer, secretary-general of Italy's Communist Party and an atheist who nonetheless is willing to accommodate the steadfast faith of his wife Letizia...
During this period Boston's residents, influenced by the inability of city officials to do more than raise taxes, were under constant pressure to leave. Many did just that, but the majority stayed. Those who remained turned inward to their neighborhoods, which had always been strong, for support. As steadfast as these people were, however, they were under constant attack from the rising tax rate, the rising crime rate, the overcrowded schools, and the overall unwillingness of the state or federal government to provide real relief. As a result, they lost confidence in all levels of government including the courts...