Word: assents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress has already ordered the President to destroy by 1997 even more of the American stockpile than he proposed. Moreover, by making the complete elimination of chemical weapons contingent on the assent of 20 nations deemed capable of producing them, Bush gave veto power to mavericks like Iraq and Libya. Until such an agreement is reached, the U.S. insists on modernizing its supply with new binary nerve-gas weapons -- a position that the Soviets have termed unacceptable...
...following the path from Rome that was trod by missionaries of long ago, the envoys of the Holy See scored major triumphs in Eastern Europe last week. First, with the remarkable assent of the Kremlin, Pope John Paul II named a new bishop for Belorussia, a Soviet republic that borders Poland. It was the first such appointment in 63 years; the region's last Catholic bishop was sent to prison in 1927. The Pontiff then named three new bishops and regularized the status of a fourth to give hard-line Czechoslovakia its fullest hierarchy since the Communists launched a postwar...
...same at first. Behind the hard eyes of a young passport officer lurk the ghosts of his country's history: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Lenin, Stalin and all those they once ruled, the entire tragic parade of persecutors and persecuted. And when the officer finally grunts his assent and one is readmitted to the Soviet sanctum, one still imagines great steel doors clanging shut...
...kind of "Yalta Two," a latter-day reprise of the much criticized wartime agreement that cemented the East-West division of Europe. Moscow would agree to tolerate hitherto unprecedented political and economic liberalism in the East and would renounce the Brezhnev Doctrine. In return, the West would assent to the "legitimate" Soviet security interests there, including the implicit promise not to seek the reunification of Germany or pursue any other military advantage...
...instantly on two display boards overlooking the hall. This time, 18 Arab countries insisted on a voice vote as well. By a draw of lots, Britain went first, and abstained. Next came Uruguay, with a decisive si. Soon there was a oui and a da, then the Arabic assent na'am. As the U.N.'s six official languages rang out, a chuckle began to rumble through the chamber. The exhausted delegates seemed to have found a release for pent-up tension in the very sounds they were hearing. By the time China offered the Mandarin affirmative zan cheng, the chuckles...