Word: upset
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...share of responsibility in Western defense, because we continue to have a bilateral [base] agreement with the U.S. There will be a referendum [on NATO] when we have completed our determination of our national needs, and when the international climate is such that the [EastWest] balance would not be upset...
...fleeing Mexicans. An economic austerity program imposed last year sent the value of the peso plummeting further, making the 36% unemployment rate (including the underemployed) seem all the more severe. Some of the once docile immigrants are carrying weapons and leading patrolmen on high-speed chases. "Mexicans are upset because they don't feel they can sustain themselves in their own country," says Mike Sheehy of the Nogales, Ariz., Border Patrol...
...obvious that Arafat faced a serious challenge to his leadership. The rebels were upset over Arafat's recent tendencies toward moderation, notably his series of discussions with Jordan's King Hussein on President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which called for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to be linked to Jordan. Left-wing elements within Fatah oppose any settlement that would give the Palestinians less than a wholly sovereign and independent state, however unrealistic that goal may be. They in effect vetoed Arafat's attempts to reach an agreement with Hussein that...
...thing is certain decisions are final, except in the cases of alleged discrimination. "Occasionally, people think they should've gotten a little more, but that's part of the complexities of the world. Unless you're really upset, you just sit there and swallow it," the $71,000-a-year O'Brien elaborates, adding with a laugh, "I mean, I think Derek should pay me twice as much, but what...
Challenged to clarify the difference, Foot and Healey produced a tortured compromise statement marked with internal contradictions. No sooner had it been cobbled together than it was upset by former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who blasted the notion of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Polaris missiles, he declared, have "a life span of ten to twelve years as effective deterrents . . . and we should not give them up unilaterally." That sent a jolt through the party, and at week's end the continuing differences were so obvious that Foot was reluctant to answer questions on the issue...