Word: calms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, this good fortune is not irreversible. When it becomes plain just how badly Iraq has been mauled, Arab rage may again threaten the calm. The coalition, no longer unified by the single aim of liberating Kuwait, will lose cohesion as its members compete to realize their own visions of the future, each guided by a unique set of interests that at some points must clash. Already differences are emerging: the Soviets, for instance, want a better deal for their old client Iraq than the West does, and the Arabs and Europeans want to be tougher on Israel than...
...U.S.S.R., however ominous, has not altered the country's basic desire to stay in the good graces of the capitalist world as much as possible, if only because it desperately wants outside help for its economy. Also the Soviets are so much in need of internal stability and calm that they are all the more eager to be seen fostering those virtues abroad. Hence the core of agreement -- and cooperation -- between Moscow and Washington on the requirement that Iraq get out of Kuwait...
...Beckmann, Max Ernst, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka and others. The viewer could imagine what demons stood behind them: the creeping Jew, the scheming Bolshevik, the Negro with his thick lips and saxophone, the slavering pervert. In here it was all David and the Apollo Belvedere, noble simplicity and calm grandeur as $ interpreted by such heirs of Michelangelo and Polyclitus as Hitler's favorite sculptor Arno Breker and his court painter Adolf Ziegler. What kind of Germany, the two shows asked, do you want...
...WHAT IF, instead of shouting them when drunk, he had expressed similarly prejudiced opinions during a calm discussion? The overtly disruptive style of presentation would be removed, yet many university codes include the expression of such opinions in their definition of harmful action, without specifying the mode of presentation, a dangerous omission...
...rest of the country was suffering from a bad case of nerves, the troubled Baltic republics enjoyed a moment of relative calm. After meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh in Washington, President Bush said he had been given assurances that Moscow intended to withdraw some of its forces from the region and reopen talks with the republics. Interior Minister Pugo said that all paratroops, except those permanently stationed in the Baltics, and two-thirds of the Interior Ministry forces would be withdrawn by week's end. In another conciliatory gesture, Gorbachev set up Kremlin delegations to begin talks with...