Word: concessioner
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Downstairs in the Republic Ballroom, about 150 workers for independent candidate Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.) sat cross-legged, yelling, "Spoiler!" when Carter appeared on the large screen projection television to make his concession speech.
The agreement held as long as the Shah lived. Though Baghdad never forgot its Shatt al Arab concession, though it resented the Shah's self-appointed role as the policeman of the gulf and worried about Iran's steadily growing military strength, it reaped instant benefit from the...
Walesa laid out the free-union issue at the Tuesday session. Said he: "We don't want to change the socialist ownership of the means of production, but we do want to be the real masters of the factories. We were promised that many times before. We have now...
Walesa, 37, does not look like a hero. At 5 ft. 7 in., with a slight build, a mop of brown hair overhanging his bulbous nose, and a bushy mustache, he wears outsize clothes that look like hand-me-downs from much larger brothers. Nor is he accustomed to prominence...
If the Israelis took the embassy moves with sorrow, they expressed undisguised anger over the American decision to abstain on the U.N. vote rather than cast its veto. Ignoring the provocative nature of the Knesset vote that had led to the U.N. action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin blasted the U.S...