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But now their children--my nieces and nephews--are beginning to make overtures to me ...
His overtures are rebuffed; his son has come to think of his stepfather as his true father.
(Reed has also made overtures toward black churches, home to America's most committed social conservatives.
Among other things, the piece says that President Johnson (and President Kennedy before him) sounded out the Soviet Union on heading off China's nuclear capabilities, but the Soviet Union flatly ignored the overtures.
The conciliatory overtures began early this year, after nearly four decades of violence, when the government removed security forces from a large FARC-controlled territory, but stalled when officials requested that an international verification committee monitor the zone.