Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government has called for a six-month cease-fire with the guerrillas beginning next Thursday and proposed forming a government of national reconciliation to end the eight-year war in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union has strongly backed the call and said it wants to remove its forces from its Central Asian neighbor...
...former Prime Minister was saddened by a controversy that erupted in the last year of his life. At issue was whether Macmillan, while serving as a British representative in the Central Mediterranean region immediately after World War II, had ordered more Soviet and Yugoslav refugees returned to their countries, where they faced imprisonment or even execution, than had been called for in the Yalta agreement. While Macmillan never fully explained his role in the affair, he took full responsibility for his actions...
...Central Intelligence Agency, offspring of World War II's Office of Strategic Services, has its own clubby traditions. Knightley quotes Allen Dulles, who testified on agency staffing before a congressional committee in 1947. "I should think," said the future CIA director, "that a couple of dozen people throughout the United States could do it, two in New York, one in Chicago, and one in San Francisco." Dulles felt that "scores rather than hundreds" could handle U.S. intelligence requirements abroad, and, he added, "If this thing gets to be a great big octopus, it should not function well...
FROM TITLE to finish, there's little subtlety in The End of the World With Symposium To Follow. Under glaring lights, actors hyper-project their lines. Buzzers and phones eerily ring out at startling volumes. At one point, the central character, playwright Michael Trent (Ken Howard), literally bangs a drum to pound his message across...
...Kopit's central metaphor is that of the playwright as detective. Soon enough, Trent's curiosity defeats his hesitation. In a Philip Marlowe trenchcoat, Trent dutifully goes to Washington to search for clues. But the confusion only gets worse as he tries to discover the logic of nuclear policy, as well as why Stone has chosen him for the commission...