Word: undercutting
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...appropriate authorities. In 1968, before the Paris Viet Nam talks, Fisher, acting as a private citizen, tried to persuade Sweden to get negotiations started. He had half talked former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant into backing the Swedish initiative when that government took a dovish turn that undercut its neutrality. Fisher has also written various letters to Middle Eastern leaders. Recently published as Dear Israelis, Dear Arabs (Harper & Row; $6.95), the letters make many specific proposals, for example, that Israel make a sample withdrawal in part of the Sinai to demonstrate how general rapprochement might work. Fisher's undertakings...
...four-day negotiations were seriously undercut by numerous mistakes in judgment. The commission did not second-guess Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald's decision to talk to the prisoners, but it contended that he should not have negotiated with more than 1,200 rioters looking on. Nor should newsmen and TV cameras have been permitted into the yard, thereby giving rioters a national limelight that they were unwilling to relinquish. The 33 "citizen observers"-an unwieldy group including Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, were too "racked with ideological differences" to be much help...
...Committee passed antiwar measures. It was enough of a setback to cause Nixon to denounce his critics more vigorously than ever for encouraging the North Vietnamese to fight on. "We would hope," he said at his press conference, "that public figures in their comments will not do anything to undercut the negotiations, that Congress in its actions will not in effect give a message to the enemy: 'Don't negotiate with the present Administration. Wait for us. We will give you what you want in South Viet...
...complex pattern of tag or "mother-may-I". Henry James's American girls are seduced not by men, but by surfaces, by "their failure to look deep enough into things." And the men perceiving full well the awful depths, sense a mysterious force in women that threatens to undercut their own power. Their outright acts of betrayal and cruelty are breathless attempts to remain one step ahead of destruction...
...they often bend the playlist a little. I heard the full version of Yes's "Roundabout" there, and just today I heard the full five and one-half minutes of Jeff Beck's "Ice Cream Cakes." These occasional album cuts are the result of a successful attempt to undercut WMEX's listernership. MEX, under new management, dropped the album cuts, and picked up the games, commercials and patter for a reason no one's been able to figure out to date. WILD produces good rhythm and blues at 1090 from sunup to sundown weekdays and broadcasts Black Muslim Mosque services...