Word: titos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have given up whatever hope it formerly held of transforming Poland into a Western-style democracy. As things now stand, the Pope simply hopes that Poland can evolve into a kind of Yugoslav-style Communist state. Some diplomats in the Vatican believe Jaruzelski has the makings of a Tito. The Vatican's strategy thus is to approach the crackdown as an internal Polish matter, and to seek to avoid making it an international crisis...
...Jimmy Carter invited Zorinsky and 190 of his fellow Nebraskans to the White House for a briefing, had Rosalynn Carter call Zorinsky's wife, had Ambassador Sol Linowitz play tennis with the Senator (Linowitz lost), and invited both Zorinskys to a state dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
...been educated in West Germany. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had begun pressing Iran to release the hostages right after the embassy was seized. Genscher had his first secret contact with Tabatabai early last year in Belgrade at President Josip Broz Tito's funeral. Tabatabai subsequently, in February and March, made several trips to Bonn, one public and ostensibly on other business, the other secret, followed by additional secret trips by other Iranian envoys. West Germany's efforts were closely coordinated with Washington's, and by March it seemed serious negotiations...
...martyr: "You were to have many faces, many names ... you were a Vietcong girl... You told me about a god with a yellow beard whom they call Jesus Christ and he has wings and flies over the clouds and dies like a Vietcong partisan ... then your name was Padre Tito de Alencar Lima ... Captain Mauricio said to you, 'Now you will know the local office of hell.' " Those who prefer the unexamined aphorism may choose: "The bitter discovery that God does not exist has destroyed the concept of fate" or "Death is a thief that never turns...
George Washington helped establish the United States as a lasting representative state not only because he was a magnanimous man, but also because his era allowed him. Tito may have failed to create a lasting Yugoslavia, but his era did not permit him completely to impose his personality on the country. His worth as a man and as a leader cannot be determined merely by looking at Yugoslavia, as Djilas asserts. His goodness can only be decided by looking at what course he chose among his alternatives...