Word: rigidities
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...give Sadat progress reports. Kissinger seemed to be making progress, but slowly. He met in Cyprus with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who indicated that Moscow would not oppose his peacemaking endeavors. The Israelis agreed to give up more captured territory on the Golan Heights, and the Syrians dropped rigid demands for a specific timetable for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. At week's end the likelihood of a disengagement deal was still uncertain, but Sadat worked on as though the final outcome was inevitable...
...proclaimed: "We are ready to assume the highest responsibilities of office." Another former exile and Soares' principal rival on the left, Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal, 60, had no sooner unpacked his bags than he began negotiating with the junta for the job of Labor Minister. Because of the rigid discipline the Communists had been forced to exercise during their years as an outlawed underground movement, they have emerged as the most organized political party in the country. But the military retains control, and its leaders hope that in the year before general elections are held, other parties will become...
Karefa-Smart's political awakening came shortly after that, during a tour of East Africa. He was stunned by the exploitation of Africans in the mining industry throughout the copper belt, and, looking around, saw far more rigid repression than relatively liberal Sierra Leone had known...
There's a saying current in some parts of the world: scratch a liberal and find a fascist. The saying finds support in the activities of people like Premier Marcos of the Philippines, elected with the help of a liberal American advertising firm only to clamp down a rigid dictatorship when democracy threatened to mean social change. But it's not supposed to find support in the United States itself...
...national strategy based on the rigid pursuit of a policy that imposes such heavy spending on defense," he wrote, "will irremediably compromise survival, the very thing for which the expense is being made. Trying to win a subversive war by military means is to accept defeat in advance, unless one possesses unlimited capacity to prolong the war indefinitely, turning it into an institution. Is this our objective? Clearly...