Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms of practical politics, given the sinful human condition, would it not be more realistic and hence more wholesome-and, as it happens, also more moral-to train now our diplomacy on the decade ahead and work for as positive a role as possible in our eventual relations to an inevitably united, nationally communist Vietnam? As to what we can mean by honorable, we should be limited solely to our concern for the reduction or hopefully the suspension of reprisals against all of those South Vietnamese who in good faith or otherwise accepted our professions of concern for them. Here...
Nearly two years of sporadic strikes, riots, sinking trade balances, a franc devaluation and other troubles led French Economist Jean-Marie Albertini to invent a Monopoly-like game called Ec-oplany. In it, players assume the role of finance ministers and try to outwit each other at running a national economy. By rolling dice, each participant is tossed from recessions to failing harvests to baby booms. Unless he learns quickly, a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge of civil war in no time...
...more than two decades, the U.S. has in large measure served as Israel's benefactor, a role that the Soviet Union has more recently assumed in behalf of the Arab states. Initially the U.S. position was dictated less by strict geopolitical considerations than by moral impulse-a desire somehow to compensate the Jewish people for the horrors of World War II. Politics, too, played a part, especially among Democratic Presidents who needed the urban Jewish vote. The long-term U.S. role is in the midst of a transformation, however, and the Israelis are plainly alarmed...
Broker's Role. Basically, the U.S. is trying to regain leverage for itself among the Arab states-an attempt the British and French have been making in order to diminish Soviet influence. Thus, when the Israelis described the U.S. moves as appeasement, Rogers objected to the word. "It suggests that the Arabs are enemies of the U.S.," he said. "Of course that isn't true...
...restore normal relations with the Arabs without going back on the U.S. pledge to guarantee Israel's sovereignty. The effort is beginning to bear some fruit. Mauritania recently renewed diplomatic relations, which were ruptured during the 1967 war, and other states may follow suit. By shifting from the role of benefactor to broker, the U.S. hopes-and the hope is slender-that it may be able to restore peace to an area where warfare has become the daily routine. Last week, for instance, amid all the diplomatic harangues, Israel's military was having another busy time...