Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard. Cambridge's largest landlord, opposes the measure. In a brief filed with the council, the University stated that the measure "would probably result in an unconstitutional infringement" of its rights...
Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, who looked hale but moved stiffly in the brief conference footage broadcast over national TV, closed the meeting with a short speech calling on the Western democracies to let capitalism and Communism live in "peaceful coexistence." But he warned, "A dangerous test of strength, being imposed on us by the most reactionary imperialist circles, primarily in the U.S., is not our choice, not our policy. But we will be able to stand up for ourselves...
...tortuous transformations, from Stalinist despotism to the vicissitudes of the Andropov and Chernenko years. He has dealt with nine U.S. Presidents, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 14 Secretaries of State. Says a diplomat who meets often with Gromyko: "He remembers not because he read a brief or a book, but as often as not because he was there in person...
...SART had become START. Reagan liked the initials because they suggested a new beginning, and he put a brief plug for START in a speech. But the Administration was still a long way from having a proposal to go with the word. Not until early 1982, when the White House became concerned about the growing nuclear arms freeze movement and congressional opposition to the MX-a longstanding program to develop a new, large, ten-warhead ICBM-did the Administration buckle down to serious, high-level consideration of its options for START. By then, Allen had been replaced as National Security...
...banks and other maneuvers for which the Goliath machine was not designed. I thought for a few moments that the plane would be torn apart." Much of the account is touching and personal; Shirer tells of his marriage to an Austrian woman, the difficult birth of their daughter, their brief vacations while the crash of Europe rumbles in the background, his worry as shaky news-service jobs wash out from under him. His account of trying to get CBS to pay attention to the imminent annexation of Austria, while a New York executive insisted that he set up a series...