Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin leaders fume as they hear yet another rhetorical outpouring about human rights from Washington. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, angered by a hard new U.S. stand on economic, nuclear and defense issues, struggles to understand the complex personality of the evangelist in the White House. Israelis and Arabs wonder what the President means by his seemingly offhand use of heavily freighted Middle Eastern code words. Brazil's prickly military leaders-along with other authoritarian regimes in Latin America's southern cone-bristle at Washington's finger pointing. Even the studiously cautious Japanese raise a diplomatic eyebrow...
...wonder that this relationship is a very sensitive one. Mexico feels any hardening of policies severely. Or, as Canada's Premier Trudeau described it, it is like having a honeymoon with an elephant: the slightest change in position is enough to crush the poorer country. And it was due to Mexico's past policies that the elephant turned just enough to make its weight felt...
...sake of being present. If there is a conference to solve the problem sincerely, I will be happy to participate. What I am seriously worried about is a theatrical conference convened just to keep the area busy, which will achieve nothing. Isn't it tragic that people wonder if the Palestinians, the people who have been driven out of their homes, have the right to attend a conference on the Palestine problem...
...wonder he talked with me at such length about literature and art! Is he still in New York...
...Small wonder flies freeze...