Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting passed its 15-minute mark did the police begin to relax. Speaking in a low, soothing voice, Zahedi brought up the deaths of Khaalis' children, and suddenly the terrorist broke into tears. Then Zahedi returned to the Koran. "You could see a rapport building," recalls Ghorbal. "Trust and confidence were sinking in." Finally after two hours, Khaalis blurted out what was most on his mind: he did not want to go to jail, he wanted to go home...
...apolitical drifter, Ray ("Cat") Olsen, 23, held ten hostages in a Manhattan branch of New York's Bankers Trust Co. for eight hours, demanded that authorities release Patty Hearst and imprisoned members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and pay him $10 million in gold. Result: Olsen gave up and freed all hostages...
...President is going to the people so earnestly for a number of reasons. It is, first of all, his natural style. Carter's entire campaign to reach the White House was built on the strategy of persuading the public to trust him. Without the solid backing of the Democratic Party's traditional power blocs, like the labor unions, Carter believes that he must function as a kind of political guerrilla, building a base at the grass roots. Says one White House aide: "In effect. Carter has to keep on campaigning." He also needs to get widespread backing...
...tough question. I think the basic answer is that you cannot trust the Soviet Union to do anything except pursue its own self-interest. To a degree, that is true of us too. But the fact that we have different views as to what the world ought to be does not mean that there still aren't circumstances under which it would be in our mutual interest to try to lessen the degree of military confrontation...
Gorski became a central issue in the talks after union spokesmen said his efforts to reorganize the force by increasing the workload of each officer and spending more money on computerized hardware and mechanical gadgetry had created "a complete lack of trust in the chief of police...