Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also discussed a situation closer to the Argentine leader's home: Chile, now the only major military dictatorship left in South America. Argentina, which shares a 2,500-mile border with Chile, is known to be deeply concerned that the Moscow-leaning Chilean Communist Party has with increasing stridency voiced support for "all means of struggle," including armed warfare, against the government of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. A U.S. official described Alfonsin's assessment of the problem as "not alarmist. He didn't urge the U.S. to take any action...
...Vasya, 15, a schoolboy carrying a guitar in a case: "Personally, I think it's a good thing Gorbachev is young; he's the youngest member of the Politburo. The others are all stuck in their ways now, but Gorbachev has his ear closer to the ground...
...doll atop a hill of red and white flowers. Familiar sites: the House of Unions, the Historical Museum, the Lenin Mausoleum. Familiar rituals: foreign dignitaries solemnly shaking hands with the new man, giving him the once-over. There is the former leader's widow, the first chance for a closer look at her. What codes can be deciphered in the eulogy? Which Politburo member is standing where? These funerals have been our way inside of late, our odd little knotholes to the land of deep secrets...
Before moving into the future, Gorbachev had to take leave of the past. His first days in power were filled with the pomp and panoply of a funeral that brought heads of state and other dignitaries from 49 nations to the Soviet capital. Television coverage gave Soviet citizens a closer look at their new leader, who is better known in the West than in his own country thanks to extensive Western press coverage of his visit to Britain last December. Evening news programs showed Gorbachev and the Politburo delegation as they paused inside the House of Trade Unions to contemplate...
...costs. Its pilots, for instance, are among the highest paid in the U.S. The captain of a Pan Am Boeing 747 jetliner can earn $150,000 annually for an average 55 flight hours each month. At People Express, pilots of similar jets make $40,000 a year while flying closer to the industry average of 85 hours. Said Robert Joedicke, a transportation analyst for Shearson Lehman Bros.: "Pan Am has to set an example. It has to hold the line...