Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China with Prime Minister Bob Hawke were the first to convey the news to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. When the two leaders sat down at a state banquet, Zhao turned to Hawke and asked, "Who do you think will succeed Andropov?" The official Chinese message to Moscow was brief but surprisingly warm, noting: "It is the sincere desire of the Chinese government to see relations between the two countries normalized...
Unlike Leonid Brezhnev, who loved to wear row upon row of medals, Yuri Andropov kept his army general's uniform in the closet. But if the late Soviet leader gave every appearance of being a civilian, his ties to the military Establishment came under increasing scrutiny during his brief tenure. Andropov, it was believed, owed a debt to the military because Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov had backed him in the race to succeed Brezhnev. In what many saw as a disquieting sign of the brass hats' growing power, it was the military's Chief of Staff, Nikolai...
...astronauts gave their flying chair a thorough checkout; McCandless reported that his only real surprise was that the MMU shook and rattled when he turned on the forward-motion jets. The space walkers also retrieved a faulty camera from the aft end of the cargo bay, engaged in a brief and successful tryout of the shuttle's sinewy, 50-ft.-long arm, readjusted a scientific instrument on the big West German-made movable platform called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) and tested some of the tools created for April's satellite retrieval...
Five hockey players-two Canadians, two Austrians and an Italian-were dismissed on the eve of the competition for having had brief encounters with the National Hockey League. One of the Austrians not expelled was Richard Cunningham, 32, veteran of more than 300 games in the defunct World Hockey Association. On the computer terminals in the press room, Cunningham's occupation is listed as "philosopher...
This being so, imagine the consternation of a distinguished chamber ensemble, rich in years and adoring reviews, when their first violinist is felled by a heart attack. Their alternative is retirement or filling the empty chair. Brief experience with the former is not encouraging. After years of letting the group set their tones and rhythms, the remaining bachelors find their loneliness difficult. And without the calming core with which music provided their lives, they are restive. The appearance of Edoardo Morelli (Pierre Malet) is an unspoken prayer's answer. He is a superb musician. He is a handsome...