Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food imports. Indeed the clergymen who visited the hostages came away from subsequent meetings with Iranian officials convinced that the Ayatullah is dangerously confused about Western views of the crisis. The clerics wrote him a letter explaining that contrary to the general belief in Iran, the American people strongly support Carter's stand. Said Gumbleton: "We told them they may be misreading the situation, thinking there is a separation between the American people and the Government...
...Saturday, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sought support for a two-part U.S. proposal in private meetings at the U.N. First, the Security Council would send U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to Tehran to seek the release of the hostages. Next, if the Waldheim mission did not succeed within a certain number of days, perhaps ten, Iran would be punished by a U.N. trade embargo, exempting only food, Pharmaceuticals and oil. But this approach also ran into opposition from the council's Third World members. They were willing to send Waldheim to Tehran, but they did not want...
...fine. Says Robert Giaimo, chairman of the House Committee on the Budget: "It's an election year and we all hear the national cry out there to keep spending down. I think Congress is even less in the mood for new spending than it was last year, when support was almost...
...aren't you running on the Democratic ticket? I really don't think you have a prayer in the world in the Republican Party." All too familiar with that question, Anderson stoically replied: "I do have a chance if enough people like you are willing to support...
...TOWN, proclaimed one hand-painted poster, in a gibe at the biracial former government's Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who will be the Front's main rival in the February elections. The raucous demonstration was both a sign of the guerrillas' broad-based popular support and a reminder of the volatile emotions that still threaten the fragile truce. "Zimbabwe out of the gun," rang an aggressive cheer...