Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adopted a so-called poison-pill defense, which would increase the amount of outstanding Boeing stock and thus effectively dilute the value of the shares a raider might own. Boeing management also huddled with Washington State's political leaders to discuss the possibility that the legislature might adopt emergency anti- takeover laws, as Minnesota and North Carolina did recently when local companies were pursued by outsiders. In Washington State, any threat to Boeing (total employment: 121,500) raises deep emotions. Moreover, Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge said last week that the Pentagon might try to block Pickens if his raid...
...anti-American demonstration by Iranian pilgrims in Mecca last Friday led to clashes with Saudi riot police in which at least 402 people were killed, 275 of them Iranians. Hundreds were injured...
...right to use contraceptives in their homes as "shallow, murky and rhetorical." He called the constitutional right to privacy "simply one more slogan that some Justices will use or not as convenient in the process of writing their own tastes into law." We must not allow this antiwoman, anti-civil rights nominee to be named to the court...
...foreign policy, Gorbachev is seeking a relaxation of tensions so that he can devote energy and resources to his domestic reforms. That is why he has been so determined to engage the most anti-Soviet of American Presidents in personal diplomacy. Gorbachev needs to convince international public opinion that he is one of history's good guys. So far, he has proved himself a master of low-risk, high-payoff gestures, doing things that in other societies would be considered only normal and civilized. He let Andrei Sakharov return to Moscow from exile, for instance, and thus earned the cautious...
...Soviets have, in fact, seemed somewhat cautious about the military support they now provide Nicaragua. But so far Moscow has been unwilling to abandon the Sandinistas or other Third World clients, claiming that U.S. aid to anti-Marxist forces prevents peaceful settlement of local conflicts. As Oliver North argued in his testimony last week, Cuban troops, serving as the Soviet "mercenary army," are stationed in Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Testing the Soviets' true intentions will be tricky; the manipulation of Third World proxies is not an issue that lends itself to formal negotiations. Assistant Secretary Ridgway...