Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panamanian government, which has issued few statements all week, had no reaction to Bush's call Saturday for Panamanians and the nation's 15,000-member Defense Forces to oust the general. As head of the Defense Forces, Noriega is the country's de facto ruler...
...service is formal but the tone relaxed. At a recent dinner for potential advertisers, Georgette Mosbacher, flame-haired CEO of La Prairie skin-care company and wife of the Secretary of Commerce, griped acidly about "the hatchet job" the Washington Post magazine had done on her. "What did they call you?" Lear asked. " 'Glamorous,' " drawled Mosbacher. "Take it, honey," barked Lear. "They call me 'eccentric.' " Under the gleam of crystal refracted by lemony candlelight, Lear presided over dinner for twelve served by a squadron of waiters. Playing impresario, she deftly focused scattershot conversations into one group topic, spawning debates over...
Helmut Kohl has infuriated the Bush Administration by trying to save his political skin with a call on the superpowers to negotiate over short-range nuclear weapons. But however pusillanimous his motives may be, Kohl happens to be right in what he recommends. Tactical nuclear weapons have never made sense, especially concentrated in West Germany, the putative battlefield where World War III would begin. If American tactical missiles were ever fired in anger, they would raise mushroom clouds over German territory and probably kill more local civilians than foreign invaders. If, on the other hand, the missiles were not fired...
...would like to think that he [Noriega] will heed the call of the people and that he would listen to the international outcry that is building and that he would step down from office--in which case the relations with the United States would improve dramatically and instantly," Bush said...
...Panamanian people have spoken and I call on Gen. Noriega to respect the voice of the people and I call on all foreign leaders to urge Gen. Noriega to honor the clear results of the election," Bush said...