Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday, while Mrs. Reagan made brief ceremonial visits to Malaysia and Thailand, the President flew north to the Tokyo summit. A few days earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had called on his countrymen to "pause and reflect on your own life-style" as a preliminary step toward restructuring the economy away from its dependence on exports. That was good news to the Reagan Administration, which last week reported that the March U.S. trade deficit had widened by $2 billion, to $14.5 billion, with the deficit in trade with Japan setting an all-time one-month record of $5.5 billion...
Neither Raines or Montgomery mentions hissupport of divestment in the brief biographicalsketches adjacent to their photos in the electionpacket. South Africa and divestment were theprimary topics of the blurbs submitted by theAlumni Against Apartheid candidates...
Seattle had taken a brief 1-0 lead the inning before when Gorman Thomas had landed a shot in the center field bleachers. It was one of only three hits the Mariners managed on the night, and was soon nullified by Evans' shot...
...senior-citizen murders" have certain characteristics that may make them easier to solve than the Atlanta child slayings. Unlike the earlier case, the murders have all taken place during a brief period of time in a circumscribed geographic area; the modus operandi has not varied. Says Langford: "This will not stretch out like the missing and murdered children." Elderly women pray that he is right...
...Libyans, who make a point of observing the niceties of the relationship between host and guest, were understandably cool to the U.S. correspondents. "Their mood was sullen and angry," notes TIME's Fischer, "but their hostility did not seem directed at us." After Gaddafi's brief TV appearance Wednesday night, demonstrators began chanting "Down, Down, U.S.A.!" in front of the hotel, while others, in a more festive mood, organized a horn-tooting, flag-waving victory procession along the city's + corniche. Libyan radio reports that U.S. pilots had been lynched by furious mobs did not engender affection for Americans...