Word: bunkerisms
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Finally, as fine flakes of snow powdered the gray morning sky on Thursday, Reagan and Gorbachev broke their public silence and converged on the drab concrete bunker in Geneva that serves as an international conference center to tell the world what their private fireside summit had produced. Their report was modest. As Gorbachev put it in a brief, formal statement, the talks had failed at "solving of the most important problems concerning the arms race." He cautioned, "If we really want to succeed in something, then both sides are going to have to do an awful lot of work." Nonetheless...
...Moscow's most ambitious effort yet to get its message across to the world media. In an attempt to match the Reagan Administration's well-honed communication skills, the Soviets set up shop a week before the summit at the International Conference Center, a concrete-block house dubbed "the bunker" and home to the non-U.S. journalists. The 55-man operation included a dozen high-powered experts fluent in English and led by well-known America Watcher Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada. Besides providing twice-daily briefings that began several...
...guide from the trust, cars and campers with license plates from all over the country parade daily by the farmhouse looking for cranes. At dawn and at dusk, the visitors gather in a large blind built of concrete blocks and sunk into a riverside berm like a war-zone bunker. In crane country it is people who are the interlopers...
...thematic undercurrent of Jimmy Breslin's fifth novel, a brutal slab of working-class life set among the Irish in the New York City borough of Queens. This is where Breslin learned his own trade as a newspaperman, reporting on the ways and means of the Archie Bunker set. His headlong bowling-ball prose can currently be found in the New York Daily News, where he is a Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist. There, as here, Breslin's lack of subtlety is his greatest strength. His characters are undereducated, abusive and conflicted by feelings of pride and shame. Table Money is burdened...
While no American casualties were reported, Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams said the U.S. embassy in San Salvador was virtually destroyed, and the bunker-like compound might have to be razed. The loss would be a painful one, since the embassy served as a nerve center for the U.S.-backed campaign against the guerrillas...