Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week was massing naval power in the Middle East, possibly to retaliate for the attack on Marines in Lebanon-though whom to retaliate against, and how, was an unresolved question. Largely at the instigation of Secretary of State George Shultz, the U.S. was also trying to forge closer ties to Israel, seeking somehow to make use of Israeli military might as a counterweight to the troublemaking capacity of Soviet-backed Syria...
Talks between Reagan and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan were so harmonious that White House aides called them uneventful. Chun told Reagan that he agreed with "every sentence, every word, every phrase" of his National Assembly speech. Reagan's visit to the demilitarized zone took him closer than any U.S. President to the North Korean lines. He helicoptered to the Liberty Bell camp, where U.N. forces guarding the historic truce village of Panmunjom are based. At a forward observation post, he had a binocular view of North Korean military positions. Returning to Washington Sunday, Reagan could reflect...
...long he holds out, the siege last week seemed to presage his eclipse as a prime player in Middle Eastern politics. His predicament leaves the future of the P.L.O. cloudy and serves as a sad reminder that despite Arafat's years in power, the Palestinian people are no closer to realizing their dream of a homeland than they ever were...
...country's armed forces on alert too, including the calling up of an estimated 100,000 reservists. Washington and Jerusalem both publicly assured Assad that they had no intention of attacking Syria, but a suspicious Assad surely noted that the U.S. and Israel had agreed to forge closer strategic ties and that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir would be visiting Washington shortly after Thanksgiving to discuss the details...
...drab light that seems to have been filtered through all of the cocktail lounges in Los Angeles. But it is difficult to appreciate technical virtuousity while trying to distance yourself from the film and its imminent ending. Though Fosse wants you to identify with Snider, your situation is really closer to Dorothy's: you want...