Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Trudeau has been breaking his self-imposed silence, and on behalf of a controversial project: Rap Master Ronnie, a cabaret revue lampooning the Reagan Administration. Begun in 1984 as an off-Broadway lark, the show has been staged in nine cities, including Washington, where it opened in October and has been extended into next year. Trudeau constantly revises, adding for Washington a parody of bargaining with the Soviets for the release of American Journalist Nicholas Daniloff. "I feel passionate about this," says Trudeau. "I want people to think about events during the Reagan years that we tend to forget...
...winning concessions from other agencies, as North supposedly did. "I used to have a rule," says McGeorge Bundy, who served as John Kennedy's National Security Adviser. "You never say, 'the President wants' unless you are very clear about what he really wants." The wisdom of that rule has begun to sink in at the White House: last week Ronald Reagan ordered responsibility for U.S. policy toward Iran moved from the NSC to the State Department...
...know it seemed fully as unsettling as their echoes from the Watergate era. That little secret everyone shared about the President -- that he is oblivious to the nuances of his policies, out of touch with the daily operation of Government and blithely detached from distracting bits of fact -- has begun to seem, in the wake of Iceland and Iran and Nicaragua, to be far more dangerous than bemusing...
...recent months College officials have begun to search for a permanent solution to the problems of both overcrowding and transfer student housing, and they said they expect to use the results of the survey to help them find the most popular solution...
...very surprising that this had not even begun to be addressed before we got to school," said Carolyn Craig, a first-year divinity student who is confined to a wheelchair. "After a whole semester of addressing the issue continually, these past three weeks are the first time that we have seen anything happen." Added Craig, "I find these changes to be an effort, but it is only a start...