Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stepping beyond the Ivory Tower, 1984-85 was a banner year for political action, controversy and celebration in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In case you missed it, here's one brief look back at the year that...
...more pleasant aspect of his work is the surfeit of exciting topics Cohen offers for further reading and research. And Cohen's brief discussion of revolution in literature and art, and even of the concept of failure in history, are all worthy topics for future scholars...
...episode was brief but embarrassing. Leaders of the British National Union of Railwaymen last week called a strike against London Regional Transport. LRT runs the city's underground subway system, on which about 2 million passengers daily depend. Most of the transit union's 15,000 members, however, cavalierly dismissed the action, and more than 75% of the city's trains ran on schedule. The strike was abandoned after just eleven hours, a remarkable event in a country where strikes were once as traditional as afternoon...
Amid the mayhem, Jordan's King Hussein was continuing his efforts to win U.S. support for the wider Middle East peace initiative he launched with Arafat in February. Last week, after meeting with Arafat in Amman, the King flew to Cairo to brief Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on progress. This week Hussein arrives in Washington for discussions with President Reagan. His aim: to win Washington's backing for talks between U.S. officials and a joint Jordanian Palestinian peace delegation. Such a meeting would be followed, according to Hussein's plan, by direct Arab-Israeli negotiations over the future...
...scene was a dinner party in Fort Worth, attended by two dozen well-off conservatives. John Singlaub, a retired U.S. Army major general, had just ended a brief speech pleading for support for the Nicaraguan contras, specifically money for combat boots. One of the guests, a local businessman, stepped forward and wrote a check for $25,000; a few days later the same donor agreed to provide a loan for $50,000 more. The contribution paid for the , purchase of hundreds of pairs of boots -- and Singlaub was elated. Said he: "That's a real patriot...