Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday morning a resolute President strode to the podium and unveiled a bold plan for a "revolutionary" conventional-arms-reduction agreement. He put forward, with full alliance backing, an imaginative, sweeping proposal to speed up the talks to achieve deep cuts in troops, tanks, artillery and aircraft in Europe. The plan not only met Gorbachev's initiatives but topped them by calling for cutbacks that would erase the East bloc's numerical advantage while slashing the U.S. presence on European soil, all within three years...
...quintessential academic entrepreneur," says Cavanagh. By enterprising in programs inareas such as ethics, poverty and state and localgovernment--disciplines which had not beendeveloped at any other schools of public policy inthe country--Allison took bold risks, he adds...
...need for a bold step had been gnawing at Bush for some time, but it really sank in when French President Francois Mitterrand visited the President's vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., two weeks ago. Mitterrand warned, as have other NATO leaders and U.S. diplomats, that the Administration was riling European public opinion by reacting so negatively to the Soviet leader's arms-control offers...
...have a new opportunity to end the arms race. But where Gorbachev is bold, Bush is cautious to a fault. I wish he would agree that we have a lot to fear today, but not a Soviet Union prepared to negotiate. So I wish he'd press ahead. What we need is a 50% reduction in the ICBMs. We need a reduction in the conventional forces. We need a comprehensive test...
...Administration is convinced that Gorbachev has not yet gone far enough in toning down the Soviet Union's aggressive international behavior to make bold American initiatives worthwhile. In a speech last week Baker praised the Soviets for such moves as pulling their army out of Afghanistan and beginning unilateral cuts in European tank and troop strength. But he also complained that in other ways, Soviet actions do not match Gorbachev's pledges of "new thinking." For example, he chastised Moscow for stepping up aid to Nicaragua and continuing to produce five times as many tanks as the U.S. Though Baker...