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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policies and other areas of bilateral tension. But Andropov was friendlier in an exchange with Harriman about the Soviet translator. Said Harriman, who had met the translator with previous Soviet leaders: "I've known this man such a long time, I hope these past associations don't bother you." Andropov laughed and replied, "No problem for me. Don't worry about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Williamsburg | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...showing him the track--a facility some call the fastest in the world. Sometimes that's all it takes. But sometimes the visitor asks the question Haggerty doesn't want to hear: where's the outdoor track? Haggerty usually just says "It's in the Stadium." Rarely does he bother to show off the run-down four-lane cinder circuit...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Building(and Rebuilding) for Success | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...Calkins laid down the law I felt, and I suspect that many of my colleagues felt, that we had just been shown how limited our role really was. We were not advisers speaking to the Corporation members on an equal plane. Instead we were a collective bother that had to be tolerated so that we would fill the role of deflecting student criticism...

Author: By Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, | Title: The View From the Outside... ...And the Inside | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...clearly false to state that only through historical hindsight could McCloy have understood that the internment was wrong. The facts did exist back in 1942 showing that there was no "military necessity" for the internment--but those in positions of responsibility did not bother to uncover the true facts. Moreover, most of the known facts and exculpatory evidence was ignored Facts showed in 1942 that there was no threat of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast; FBI and Navy intelligence reports, and a special investigatory report ordered by the President, fully documented the fact that the Japanese-American population...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCloy, Redux | 6/7/1983 | See Source »

...polling approaches, Thatcher's lead will probably diminish. Her lieutenants are particularly concerned about the possibility of an anti-landslide vote and a "why bother to vote at all since she is bound to win" syndrome. But the lead is unlikely to disappear, given the turmoil within Labor and the assumption that a vote for the Alliance is a vote wasted. London bookmakers are offering odds of 8 to 1 that Britain is on the verge of five more years of Thatcherism. Last week that assessment sent the London stock market and the value of the pound soar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: That Maggie Style | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

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