Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tanks roll past a couple of months ago," says one, referring to the popular uprising against Marcos, "but that was only once." Outside the American embassy, however, enormous concrete flower pots have appeared overnight, apparently as protection against truck bombers. Something, the Aussies admit, could be afoot...
Some Reagan Administration officials predict that the contra program will not be irremediably damaged by the current scandal. They observe that there is no movement afoot at present to halt payment of the remaining $40 million in U.S. aid. "I think when this is all over, Congress will still be willing to back the program," Elliott Abrams said earlier this month. "We have a huge national interest in promoting democracy there." Oklahoma Republican Mickey Edwards pressed the point further in a Washington Post op-ed piece. The Congressman exhorted his legislative brethren to remember that they had approved contra...
...after the months of few developments, events moved quickly last week. Waite showed up unexpectedly in Beirut on Friday for his first visit in ten months. He clearly hoped to improve on his record of one release at a time. Islamic Jihad seemed to indicate that diplomatic activity was afoot that could achieve such a goal. Although State Department officials insisted that no deal was in the works, the terrorist group said in a statement following Jacobsen's release that the U.S. had embarked on "approaches that could lead, if continued, to a solution of the hostages issue...
Most U.S. news organizations grew increasingly skeptical at the time that anything substantially new was afoot. The Pentagon denied plans for impending military action, and even Poindexter quietly cautioned reporters that the Journal story had been inflated. The story in TIME's Sept. 8 issue referred to all "the rumors" and said, "The shadowboxing smacked of psychological warfare to keep Gaddafi off balance...
Diplomatic moves were afoot as well. The White House confirmed that Vernon Walters, shifting from his role as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., will travel to Europe this week to explore the effectiveness of present economic sanctions against Libya and possibly urge that stronger measures be taken. Syria's President Hafez Assad turned up in Benghazi to meet publicly with Gaddafi and declared that Syria "stands with all its potential by the side of Libya . . . to face the threats of America...