Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some respects, Vance's arrival in Israel was extraordinarily inconvenient for his hosts; they were almost totally distracted by domestic political turmoil. The Labor Party of Premier Rabin was reeling from the latest in a series of scandals; Asher Yadlin, a former high-ranking Labor Party member, had just pleaded guilty to kickback charges and allowed that the money he received had gone into the party's coffers. Rabin was uncertain of his tenure in office. Not only is he facing a strong challenge from opposition parties in the national elections scheduled...
...center of the turmoil was New York magazine. Murdoch's peppery new editor, James Brady, 48, fought his way through snow and ice on Monday morning to find his office scarcely less chilling. There to greet him was a sheaf of resignations. Departing were not only the magazine's creator and editor, Clay Felker, but also Design Director Milton Glaser, Managing Editor Byron Dobell (who agreed to stay through a brief transition) and 20 other editorial hands, including such notables as Tom Wolfe, Financial Writer George ("Adam Smith") Goodman, Washington Reporter Richard Reeves, Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem, Press...
...Jerusalem, Yitzhak Rabin threw his country into political turmoil by resigning as Israel's Premier, after first having expelled the three members of the National Religious Party from his insecure coalition Cabinet. Rabin presumably will stay on as Premier until the next elections, which will take place some time in the spring, instead of November as scheduled. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy angrily accused Rabin of "Israeli acrobatics"-but the Arabs know full well that there can be no serious negotiations until Israel's political crisis is untangled...
Fascinating as Pinter's radio plays are, the Adams House production suffers from the strains of translation into theater and fails to make up for it by exploiting the visual opportunities afforded by the stage. Ultimately, the internal turmoil of two unconvincing main characters simply loses its relevance. At first it's funny, then just plain dull. Either way, it's not what Pinter intended...
Changing Presidents always creates unrest in Mexico. But the turmoil facing José López Portillo when he dons the tricolored sash this Wednesday as Mexico's 60th President poses one of the country's gravest trials of confidence in decades. The able Finance Minister of the present government and a longtime friend of outgoing President Luis Echeverria Alvarez', López Portillo inherits three major and all-but-insoluble problems...