Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mubarak in effect redrafted the plan to take the sharper edges off both sides' objections. The U.S. backed the idea, and the P.L.O. did not torpedo it. While the Palestinian leadership has little faith that the plan will work, it does not want to bear responsibility for a failure. Faced with following through on its own official policy, the Israeli government fell to arguing with itself. Labor embraced Mubarak's proposal, while Shamir's Likud opposed large chunks of the plan. Two days of hot debate in the twelve-member Inner Cabinet last week produced a tie vote: de facto...
Bolshevism was mentioned. "It was like hitting Hitler with a torpedo. He assumed the platform manner on a small scale, the toss of the head, the laugh of scorn, the sweep of the hand. Only the snarl was missing. 'I have only one fear,' Hitler said. 'It is that the countries around us, into which the poison of Bolshevism is eating its way, will succumb to the Red wave one after another. Moscow is seeking to dominate Europe. We shall never permit that...
That very night, Britons learned of the first such sacrifice: 200 miles west of Scotland in the North Atlantic, the unarmed British liner Athenia, carrying 1,400 passengers from Liverpool to Montreal, was hit and sunk by a torpedo from the German submarine U-30; 112 passengers, including 28 Americans, died...
...from participating in the elections. The Bush Administration signaled its irritation by reviving talk of an international peace conference, an option repellent to Shamir. In a New York Times interview, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the Likud stipulations a "deadly blow," but he did not torpedo the plan...
...timber industry back into its hard-line position. Before the compromise was conceived, the lumbermen had made it plain that they would reject any reduction in permissible logging. In Washington, Oregon's congressional delegation was angered and disappointed. Lamented Hatfield: "I wonder if those who saw fit to torpedo a fair, short- term solution have anything to offer...