Word: rigidities
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Behind the scenes, the OAS tried hard to bring the two nations back to the conference table. The U.S. repeatedly assured Panama of its willingness to discuss all grievances once diplomatic relations were resumed. But the Panamanians, if anything, were becoming even more rigid in their demands for an advance U.S. commitment to renegotiate the 1903 canal treaty. The continuing deadlock had many Latin American diplomats worried. Warned an OAS ambassador: "The Panamanian economy is stagnating, the people are restive and unpredictable- and the government is keeping the blame...
...Winter Olympics team have done better at Innsbruck? Many a disappointed sports fan said so, for many a reason-perhaps none more strongly than the editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune, who all but accused this country's athletes of being soft: "Even without forcing processes, rigid state discipline and special incentives, one would expect a better showing. It would seem that the late President Kennedy had a strong point in his alarm over the level of physical fitness among the youth of America...
...port of Marseille and at the offices of Le Provencal, where he serves as the newspaper's director. His chauffeured car is equipped with a hooded light so that he can read dispatches without disturbing the driver's vision. Fitting a presidential campaign into so rigid a schedule seems simple to hard-driving Gaston Defferre. "It is all," he says, "a question of organization...
...guide the design of moon-landing vehicles. "We must have close-up pictures of the moon's surface," said one high space administrator. "We're not going to commit a man to make a flight without this knowledge." Such caution may well force modifications in the rigid time schedule that has been set for putting a man on the moon before...
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