Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader, Rafshoon has been urging the President to assert more control over his Administration in public. Thus when U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young thoughtlessly equated U.S. treatment of civil rights activists with the Soviet Union's persecution of its dissidents, he was openly reprimanded by Carter. Similarly, in the wake of the Bourne episode, the President sternly lectured his staff that they would be fired if they broke the law by smoking marijuana or sniffing cocaine. Rafshoon has told Carter, who tends to be extremely loyal to his staff, that it is unwise to keep aides who are not performing...
Sadat, however, had grown increasingly impatient over what he considered the lagging Israeli response to his peace initiative. Two weeks earlier, special U.S. Ambassador Alfred Atherton Jr. had briefed him on the U.S. position and on Jerusalem's stance in the wake of the foreign ministers' meeting at Britain's Leeds Castle in July. Sadat became enraged by Begin's refusal to make a gesture of conciliation on the Sinai or any further significant concessions for peace. Sadat heatedly declared that the Israeli position was "negative and backward" and that Begin himself was the obstacle...
...four California newspapers early this month by Victor Preisser, commissioner of social services in Iowa. He wanted to hire experienced guards and counselors for the state's prisons and figured that he might find them in California, where many public employees fear they may lose their jobs in the wake of property tax cuts required by passage of Proposition...
...peace poster?" (The reference was to an earlier incident in which Defense Minister Weizman had ripped down a poster outside Begin's office.) Called out Meir Peil, head of the left-wing Shelli Party: "A Premier on the rostrum ripping up papers?" Begin answered with sarcasm: "Did I wake you up, Knesset Member Peil? Shalom alechem...
...Worn with full business suit, it can be a form of armoring, a defense and an assertion of power. It can also be a gesture of compliance. White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, tieless and amiably scruffy for years, has started dressing (almost contritely) in suit and tie in the wake of stories about his drinking and raffishness. Often, the tie is a uniform signaling solidarity among certain kinds of men, a semaphore announcing that "we all speak the language." It gives men a feeling of security, a certain formality, a necessary distance. Although the tie may be physically uncomfortable, they...