Word: swiftness
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...reaction of Israel was swift, blunt and angry. Jerusalem was particularly annoyed at what it saw as a betrayal by Washington; Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the Israelis felt, should have ordered Moynihan to veto the mandate resolution rather than permit greater international recognition of the P.L.O. After a six-hour emergency session on Monday, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet decided to boycott next month's U.N. debate. It also approved a proposal to establish four new settlements on the Golan Heights within the next two weeks-a move that will make any future territorial negotiations with Syria...
Under Assad, Syrians of late no longer worry about sudden, late-night visits by secret police. But the government is vigilant about dissent, and the occasional crackdowns can be both swift and harsh. Last April, for example, 200 people were rounded up and imprisoned on the eve of the Baath Party Congress, probably because they were not Assad men. Publicly, however, they were charged with aiding Iraq, which is governed by a rival wing of the Baath movement. Although relations between Baghdad and Damascus have improved, the two neighbors have frequently been at the brink of war - sometimes over ideology...
...line of Phelps Swift, Bill Hozack, and Mike Leckie wasted little time in taking advantage of the opportunity, with senior wing Swift notching Harvard's first goal of the season at 15:37 on a wrist shot from 15 feet out. Hozack had set up the goal with a fine centering pass from the left corner...
...first eight games. His arm is still sound; it is the Namath knees that are all but gone. Before each game they are strapped so securely in metal braces that, Joe says, "they cut off my circulation." They also cut down his mobility. Says Miami Dolphin Linebacker Doug Swift: "You know where he's going to be all the time. He's handicapped...
...sources. Lately, though, the President seems to have shifted his stand again at the urging of his political advisers, who warn that whatever the economic merits, letting oil prices go up so close to a presidential election is no way to win votes. The Democrats, who have consistently opposed swift decontrol and high oil prices on the ground that the inflationary impact would threaten economic recovery, can now claim, with some justice, a major political victory...