Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BRUSSELS, Belgium--President Bush said yesterday it's too early to proclaim an end to the Cold War, but added that Mikhail S. Gorbachev's acceptance of sweeping reform in Eastern Europe "absolutely mandates new thinking" by the West...
Wrapping up his weekend summit journey with a stop at NATO Headquarters, Bush also told reporters the United States would maintain "significant military forces in Europe as long as our allies desire our presence...
...there was no shoot-out. Instead, as part of an agreement brokered by the Roman Catholic Church, the guerrillas slipped away, and the U.S. soldiers, using journalists as a shield, ran from the hotel to waiting military vehicles. But so alarming was the event that President George Bush, acutely mindful that he had been seen to be dithering during October's aborted coup in Panama, quickly convened a meeting of a National Security Council emergency group and ordered a small contingent of the supersecret Delta Force into San Salvador. At one point Bush even made the embarrassing claim that...
Following eight nights of tumultuous demonstrations and calls for democracy, Czechoslovak party leader Milos Jakes resigns. The day in 1968 that Soviet tanks rolled into Prague. Prepping for his shipboard sessions with Gorbachev, Bush gives some signs that the meetings just might go beyond the get- acquainted exercise he originally envisioned. How the President's thoughts on the Soviet Union -- and its daring leader -- have evolved from standoffishness to engagement...
...jobs is often abortion foe John Sununu. Charles Keating takes the Fifth on his savings and loan debacle. Congress passes a budget that includes (Shhhhh! Don't tell Bush) tax increases...