Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear from reports by both sides that no agreement had been reached on Cambodia, where the Soviets support a decade-old Vietnamese occupation and the Chinese arm rebels...
After his meetings and lunch with Deng, Gorbachev stepped into a Beijing street to announce his nation's resumption of friendly ties with China, but steered clear of the prodemocracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square...
...extent that U.S. policy is changing, Bush is subtly but surely shifting to a harder line than the Reagan Administration followed. Not with any great consistency, however; in the absence of a clear lead from the President, various officials have been filling the air with words and actions that send out clashing signals as to just how tough the Administration means to be. Some examples...
...negotiations. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn last week proposed a U.S. commitment to negotiate in return for three conditions: the West Germans would agree not to reduce all the way to zero; no actual reductions would be made until the outcome of talks on conventional arms becomes clear; and Bonn would accept modernization of whatever Lance force remains...
...protected at all," he says. "We need to take away all mechanical activity for at least two to three miles around them." Tawfik proposes eventually planting trees around all outdoor monuments to protect them from winds as well as to absorb moisture. Within monuments, he wants to install clear plastic shields to prevent tourists from touching paintings and inscriptions and air-cleaning systems to remove moisture and dust...