Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Alexander Haig was even more blunt: "We consider SALT II to be dead and have so informed the Soviets." (The treaty has not actually been formally rejected, however, and is still technically before the Senate.) But one high Administration official indicated that the U.S. may find some method of accepting SALT II without formally ratifying it. Internal discussions are under way, he said, about working out some "mutual restraints," which would be similar to the SALT I and SALT II restrictions now being informally observed, for both sides to honor...
...surprising outbreak of protest, by far the largest demonstration against the regime since martial law was declared last Dec. 13, was hardly a morale booster for Poland's junta leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. He and his comrades had hoped to blunt just that sort of anger. Earlier in the week, Poland's Interior Ministry announced that sufficient progress had been made in "the normalization of public life" to justify lifting some of the more onerous martial-law restrictions. The nightly curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. would be suspended (a concession that the protest may well have...
...appeared three years later, on a campaign flyer mailed to residents throughout Los Angeles' fourth county district only days before the April 1980 election Burke's opponent for the position of L.A. county supervisor had spent $100,000 having the xeroxed photograph distributed and labeled the picture with the blunt question. "Would you vote for this person." Unable to respond to the blatantly racist ploy, Burke lost the race and withdrew from elective politics at together...
According to Gary Jones, a deputy under secretary of the Department of Education, 54% of the families sending children to private schools make less than $25,000 a year. Trying to blunt the church-state issue, Reagan stressed that the tax credits would go not to parochial schools but to the parents themselves. The President also emphasized that no credits would go to families that send their children to racially discriminatory schools. Finally, he argued that strengthening private schools would force public schools to improve their programs...
...microphone was yanked out of his hands: "These people are ready to compromise as long as they can be sure Brezhnev has enough rockets to secure peace." Having packed the house with supporters, the Communists rammed through their own platform condemning U.S. actions around the world but avoiding blunt criticism of Soviet policy...