Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President who set the tone and the theme, and he did it almost as soon as he stepped off Air Force One. After a brief opening ceremony on Sunday, Reagan began his first private meeting with Gorbachev by handing him a list of cases involving Soviet people who are being denied the right to leave the U.S.S.R. or, in the U.S. view, unjustly imprisoned. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater quoted him as telling Gorbachev that for Americans the issue of human rights "has pride of place" because they view it as being at the bottom of differences between the superpowers...
...Guildhall, he pledged a "forward strategy of freedom" in dealing with Moscow, a "strategy of public candor about the moral and fundamental differences between statism and democracy, but also a strategy of vigorous diplomatic engagement." Back in the U.S., speaking to a flag-waving crowd, the President was more brief and personal. "We're a little tired," he said, "but we're exhilarated at what has happened...
High Concept is the no-fault insurance of the entertainment business, a brief description that both sells and sums up a movie or TV show. So leave it to the folks at Disney, the Everest of High Concept, to produce a movie based on this line: "Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin as twin twins." All twists and splits of the story proceed from this inspiration; the concept propels the plot. After a merging of those stars and that theme, everything else is just homework...
...Ansar 3 prisoners who managed to appeal their detention orders have won release. The brief appeals hearings before a three-man military tribunal generally amount to little more than ritual. And so the prisoners will continue to languish in their tents, with little to do but discuss politics. Detention, says Inmate No. 1,231, Kassan Ali, 29, of Gaza, "only strengthens our demand for national rights. Conditions here create more hatred...
Spence said he wants the faculty committee to focus on three areas--a review of past policy and performance, a response to the MSA report, and a set of recommendations for changing existing policy. "By mid-semester they should have a brief but pointed report," said Spence...