Word: cautions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention was riveted on the Bund, the broad avenue along the river where 100,000 protesters marched. Thus the ships neatly symbolized the peripheral role that Washington played throughout last week. With the explosion of people power, the State Department could do little but advise Beijing to use caution, and it had only a few desultory comments about the historic handshake between Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping. Finding American officials who were even slightly uneasy about the freshly minted Sino-Soviet friendship was almost impossible. Was George Bush worried? "No problem," said the President. "A healthy development," said Secretary...
...will of the people should not be thwarted by this man and a handful of Doberman thugs. They ought to do everything they can to get Mr. Noriega out of there." Asked if he wished to temper his comments, the President replied, "No, I would add no words of caution...
Appearing as a full-page advertisement in this month's issue of Harvard Magazine, the letter by Stanford President Donald Kennedy '52 was an effort to caution against voting for an independently nominated slate of prodivestment Overseers candidates that includes South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu...
...changes in the Soviet Union? We are excruciatingly close to a lasting peace. The cold war is over, Mr. President, and 100 days after inauguration, five months after the election, you say you cannot take substantive action until you receive the results of a report you commissioned. Caution is important, but not at the expense of opportunity...
Between gasps, however, some caution is in order. The Soviet Union still has a one-party system. After broaching the subject of whether other parties should be permitted, Yeltsin was subjected to an official inquiry by the Central Committee, which is still under way. Gorbachev, who says that pluralism can be accommodated within the Communist Party, calls the idea of having other parties "all rubbish...