Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father came to America from a little town in Italy called Marcianise. Like millions of other immigrants, he loved our country passionately"). For social conservatives, a stress on traditional values ("I have a strong, loving family...our neighborhood and our faith are important parts of our lives"); for liberals, brief expressions of worry about what Reagan might do to Social Security and Medicare. For hawks and doves, a remark that her Queens constituents "support a strong, sensible defense" but "want nothing to do with reckless adventures in Latin America...
Costa Rica, by contrast, has sought to defend nothing more than its own implacable neutrality. Ever since a brief revolution in 1948, the country has had no army, no tanks and no troops. Indeed, its defense force might almost have been recruited from the chorus of a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera. The air corps consists of seven planes; the 250-man company that is assigned to defend the capital of San José relies for transportation on a single Land Rover. More than half the 8,000 members of the Civil Guard are traffic policemen, who until recently wielded...
...thought to call out Tito, or dress down Marlon, never mind get heavy with the promoters. Michael, for all his fans and for most of the public at large, is the centerpiece of the tour, so last week he took center stage at a brief press conference in Kansas City. Dressed in spangled glove, dark shades, sequined band jacket and one of the red ceremonial sashes that make him look like a cultural ambassador from Sesame Street, he announced in a voice frayed by nerves that he had seen Ladonna Jones' letter. Therefore, he was asking the promoters...
...back in Washington, even after returning the prisoners, Jackson received a much cooler welcome than in the capitals he had just visited. Audacious as ever, he asked to be allowed to brief the President on his trip. Instead, Jackson was shunted off to a debriefing by Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost. State Department Spokesman John Hughes issued a polite but justified scolding: "The tradition has been not to criticize the United States from foreign platforms particularly from countries hostile to the United States." Secretary of State George Shultz pronounced his own verdict on what he called Jackson...
...Soviet offer with a demand that any talks include the subject of existing nuclear missiles. The Soviets might balk, which would be fine, but they might accept, which could be even better. After an interagency group that included the Pentagon worked out the details, McFarlane came out to brief reporters in time for the evening news broadcasts. He said that the U.S. "is prepared to meet," not necessarily to bargain, but "to discuss negotiating approaches." He also said that the talks would explore "limitations" on antisatellite weapons, even though the Soviets are seeking an outright...