Word: chairman
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...when more demonstrations were expected)), I went to Leipzig, together with people who were responsible for security. We drew up instructions that 1) any kind of violent confrontation must be avoided, 2) in no case should firearms be used, and this was summed up in an order by the chairman of the National Defense Committee. I then went to the room in which we are now sitting and presented the order to Honecker. I insisted on his signing it, which...
...powers, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have taken control of the Arab struggle against Israel, forcing the rest of the Arab world to play catch-up. Jordan's King Hussein took his cue last year by revoking his claim to the West Bank. Last December P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made capital out of the uprising by renouncing terrorism and recognizing Israel's right to exist...
...American policymakers show similar restraint when the controllers try to unnerve them by having a U.S. KC-135 tanker aircraft stray into Soviet airspace and a U.S. destroyer accidentally ram a Soviet submarine. In the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral William Crowe Jr., who in reality stepped down from that position only the day before the taping. "These things happen," he says...
...numbed by what I saw, not because of surprise but due to disbelief. This had happened to me!--a former member of the Race Relations Advisory Committee of Harvard College, the former chairman of the Educational and Political Action Committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, the person who had worked to improve race relations on my campus and who had addressed incidents of racial harassment of others to the administration. Then I looked at this within the "Big Picture." That picture contained the recently dedicated memorial to slain civil rights activists in Montgomery, Ala.; and, closer to home...
George Bush did not get where he is today by taking chances or questioning conventional wisdom, particularly on the No. 1 life-or-death issue of U.S. foreign policy. As a Congressman, diplomat, Republican Party chairman, Vice President and presidential candidate, he was always the sort of politician who fretted about the consequences of a misstep. For Bush, therefore, slow is better than fast and standing pat is often the safest posture. Once he replaced Ronald Reagan, Bush's instinct was to apply the brakes to the juggernaut of improved U.S.-Soviet relations, to take the turns very cautiously...