Word: communique
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action did not daunt Moro's captors, who last Saturday night issued "Communiqué No. 2" almost simultaneously in Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa. The 1,700-word message, a rambling revolutionary harangue about the "menace of imperialist terrorism," made no demand for an exchange of prisoners. It did claim that Moro was being "interrogated" and warned that he would be given "proletarian justice." The police said they had no reason to doubt the authenticity of the ominous communiqu...
...symbolism at home, the President seemed to be trying his hand at the same game overseas. Apart from a possible upward blip in the popularity polls, however, he left home anticipating no heavy returns from this trip or the one in March. Said a senior U.S. official of the communiqués that were being drafted for each stop: "They will be remembered for less time than it takes to write them...
Agreement between Begin and Sadat about the need to prepare for Geneva was the only concrete result of the trip. At the end of the visit, Begin released a 107-word "agreed statement" with which the Egyptian President concurred; in diplomatese, the communiqué was one step below a joint statement. The declaration expressed the desire for further dialogue between the two countries; the goal was "successful negotiation leading to the signing of peace treaties in Geneva with all Arab states...
...seated on the one-eyed Foreign Minister's blind side. In friendly fashion, Sadat literally turned Dayan around to face him. They started a new conversation about continuing lines of communication; it eventually led to the concept of working committees, referred to obliquely in Begin's communiqu...
Modicum of Progress. During the final 36 hours of the meeting, haggard and dispirited delegates shuffled from conference room to conference room seeking some small patch of common ground upon which a final communiqué could be based. The resulting document, while it conceded a modicum of progress, expressed the South's "regret" that "certain proposals for urgent actions had not been agreed upon...