Word: unyieldingness
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The last decade has seen Hollywood produce a string of movies with highly charged political messages concerning the morality of America's foreign policy values and wars. Coming Home and Apocalypse Now are two examples. These movies also have a simplistic and unyielding world view: that America's anti-communist...
The Vice President's trip was a success, but the Chinese made him work hard. Bush wanted to lobby for improved trade. While cordial in private, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping publicly upbraided the U.S. for its continued support of Taiwan, which he called the "principal problem" between the two countries...
A pugnacious State President P.W. Botha, his government under fire for its racial policies and its military adventures into neighboring countries, last week issued a warning to South Africa's critics around the world. "No self- respecting nation," he declared, "can allow any other country, large or small, to dictate...
The two sides were equally unyielding on other issues. Shultz repeated American demands for a Soviet apology for the March 24 killing of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson Jr. and reminded Gromyko of "how these incidents blow our relationship off course." Although the Soviets seemed to acknowledge Shultz's lecture...
Piotrowski and three other members of the Polish secret police--two lieutenants and a colonel, all now reduced to privates--are on trial for last October's abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a priest who was an unyielding supporter of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement. As Piotrowski...