Word: yew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This erosion affected not only adversaries; it blighted as well relations with our friends. In August, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, interrupted a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Ottawa to fly to New York for a meeting with me at Kennedy Airport. His sole purpose was to judge the impact of Watergate on U.S. foreign policy...
South Korean Diplomat Hahm Pyong Choon, a former Ambassador to the U.S. and national security adviser to the late President Park Chung Hee, says, "The U.S. is sending the right signals for a change." Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his Deputy Prime Minister Sinnathamby Rajaratnam are nothing short of ecstatic about the Reagan Administration. "For the first time since the Viet Nam War," says Rajaratnam, "the Americans are taking up the challenge...
...presence of a friend, so distraught was he over his conviction that Carter did not grasp his true responsibility as leader of the U.S. The world drifts toward war, believes Schmidt, with Carter uncomprehending. The same sentiment echoes from Asia, where Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew finds Carter's vision "a sorry admission of the limits of America's power." An official of Moscow's Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada complains: "What drives us crazy about Carter is his capriciousness, his constant changing of the points of reference in our relationship." Following this summer's economic summit...
...boxes of six-inch gaskets for Long Island. Send Marty out will ya?" a voice said over the dispatcher's radio. The dispatcher poked a pencil into Marty. He rocked back to the floor, grabbed his tin and a piece of paper, and ambled out of the trailer. "Yew comin' too boy?" he said to me with a harkening drawl. "Awright...