Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand the reasoning behind the black community's uproar over Young's resignation. This is not an issue of black and white, but of international policy. Young knew his limits and for whatever reason overstrided them. He then chose the only course he saw fit to take: resignation...
Meanwhile, the Soviet press ignored Vance's speech, and there was no sense of crisis in Moscow. In Havana, where Cuban officials generally interpreted the uproar as an attempt to mar the summit conference of non-aligned nations, nobody even answered a protest by Wayne Smith, the head of the U.S. Interests Section. One Cuban Foreign Ministry official quipped: "Americans see Russians everywhere." In friendlier countries too there was little alarm over the Cuban situation...
...Palestine Liberation Organization. Israel had protested that this violated a U.S. commitment not to negotiate with or recognize the P.L.O. unless that organization recognized the right of Israel to exist as a state or at least accepted U.N. Resolution 242, which implicitly affirms this right. Because of the resulting uproar over his meeting with the P.L.O. and over the misleading account of it that he gave the State Department, Young had to resign...
...other passengers-mostly comfortable, retired and Republican-generally remained shyly aloof from the presidential party and seemed bewildered by the uproar of a campaign swing. Some complained that they were awakened at 6:30 a.m. the first day by the pounding of Carter's feet as he jogged 22 laps around the deck; thereafter the President did his running ashore. Security was agreeably loose, however; Secret Service agents, clad in jeans and T shirts, lounged in deck chairs and smiled amiably at the few nervous passengers who strolled hesitantly past the President's rear cabin. Carter roamed...
Washington was startled, as were capitals around the world, for in his 31 months at the U.N., the freewheeling Young had demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to ride out and survive the controversies that he generated. But this time there was no stilling the uproar when it was learned that Young had met with an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in violation of repeatedly stated U.S. policy, and then deliberately misled the Department of State about the meeting...