Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has toned down its rhetoric over El Salvador, but it has yet to calm renewed fears among Third World countries everywhere, particularly in Southern Africa, that the U.S. is now inclined to treat them solely as pawns on the Soviet-American chessboard. America's recent sizable donations to a fund for assisting African refugees (unmatched by a single ruble from the Soviets) and the current mission to Africa by a still unconfirmed Assistant Secretary of State (see WORLD) suggest an effort to assuage these feelings. To be sure, the U.S.S.R. regards Third World countries strictly as pawns...
Weinberger's calm confidence stems in part from his closeness to Reagan. Their mutual admiration dates from 1968, when Weinberger, a former state assemblyman and talk-show host, joined Reagan's California cabinet as finance director. In the current Cabinet, only Attorney General William French Smith has so firm a relationship with Reagan and his inner circle...
Then, as the backdrop shifts to fluffy clouds against an azure sky, the voice says, "But France remains calm." A series of happy scenes shows Frenchmen picking grapes, at work in modern factories, riding horses, playing soccer. A crescendo: French-made washing machines, Renault cars, film stars and ballet scenes spell out progress and the good life. Then comes the man who claims responsibility for this idyllic island of well-being in a time of global torment: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 55, pictured at his desk in the Elysée Palace, meeting foreign leaders, affably...
...been torn by the worst interracial rioting the country had ever experienced. Gangs of predominantly black West Indian youths hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at hundreds of riot police. Waves of other youngsters took part in an orgy of burning and looting By the time a tense calm finally returned to Brixton, the toll of violence was stark: 149 police injured, one of whom remained unconscious days later; 58 civilians hurt; 120 buildings damaged, including nine that were completely destroyed; 47 stores looted; 224 people arrested. The total property damage was estimated to be as high as $4.4 million...
...main cluster of building formed a long rectangle, which was set in the middle of a great field. About half a mile to the right the calm edge of the Atlantic Ocean rubbed against a thin strip of sand. The grass was strangely green, despite the season. On the far side of the chapel the vague outlines of athletic fields were etched into the ground, and in the distance, to the left of the science building, stood the tiny observatory, a traditional sanctuary for lovers, or so we had been told...