Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberals, and such knowledgeable experts as retired Admiral Noel Gayler, former director of the supersecret National Security Agency, and former SALT II Negotiator Paul Warnke. Says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "Nuclear disarmament is going to become the central moral issue of the '80s, just as Viet...
...regional forces. Besides, we faced a problem in the strategic field: the increasing conversion of missiles to multiple warheads or MIRV (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles). If the Soviets MIRVed all of their land-based missiles, our land-based missiles would be at risk by the early '80s. SALT II seemed to me an opportunity to postpone this danger...
Next month John Chancellor, 54, will switch to a commentator's role, and NBC will launch a new anchor team: Roger Mudd and former Today Host Tom Brokaw, 41, who are already being touted as "the anchor team of the '80s." Muses CBS Evening News Executive Producer Howard Stringer: "We may be in the lead right now, but we cannot afford to be complacent. With Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd starting soon, it certainly wouldn't take much to close the gap between our news programs." Only time and the Nielsens will tell. But some observers think...
Unusual times-demand uncommon actions: Democrat Roosevelt in the '30s, Republican Reagan in the '80s...
...inveterate golfer, and I am sure he must go to a country club to play golf." (O'Neill, who shoots in the high 90s, does indeed go to country clubs. On his one golf outing as President, Reagan, who years ago shot in the 80s, played on the more exclusive private course on the Palm Springs, Calif., estate of Multimillionaire Walter Annenberg...