Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kohl's delicate diplomatic mission was intended to head off that possibility. If the idea of punitive trade restrictions were to arise at Williamsburg, it could touch off a row within the NATO alliance as serious as the one that exploded last summer over U.S. attempts to block a planned natural gas pipeline from the Soviet Union to Western Europe. Said a senior U.S. official prior to Kohl's arrival in Washington: "The old pipeline battle lines are forming again...
...presence of Vietnamese forces in Kampuchea that remains a key stumbling block for the restoration of relations between Hanoi and Washington. Besides supporting a United Nations resolution that calls for the withdrawal of foreign troops, the Reagan Administration seems intent on keeping Viet Nam in the position of an international pariah. The U.S. prohibits American companies from doing business with Hanoi. Washington also lobbies against United Nations development grants for the country and discourages other nations from offering aid. "Basically, Viet Nam has isolated itself by its actions," contended Secretary of State George Shultz during a Far Eastern swing last...
Mailer works against an October deadline for his next book (the "small" novel promised against his big advance) both mornings and afternoons in a "barely furnished" rented room down the block from his apartment. He is again writing fiction set in his native land and era. Ancient Evenings was his attempt to escape from the contemporary: "I wasn't sure I could really write on America any more." Attracted to Egypt originally by its burial rituals and notions of the afterlife, he found a magic in the unfamiliar: "I began to understand that these were people where everything...
...Pittsburgh for a special trip. They drink Iron City beer, eat Campbell's Chunky Beef Soup and spread their sandwiches on Wonder Bread. They belong to Weight Watchers and get their cars Midasized; their kids listen to Kiss and Andy Gibb, and their fathers work for H&R Block. And when they want to read a novel, no doubt they reach for a Stephen King...
...University Lutheran Church, located within a block of four River Houses, opened its doors to the homeless in mid-February, despite the fact that they violated zoning and health ordinances. City officials acknowledged the critical need for the shelter, and granted an exemption through the winter months...