Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paragraph in question: that "Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge for the assassination of Bashir, but the details of the conversation are not known." TIME did not say, and has never said, that Sharon intended that the Phalangists commit a massacre, or encouraged such a massacre...
...priest briefly escaped and ran across a deserted hotel parking lot, yelling, "Help me, help me. Spare my life, you people." No one heard him, and he was quickly recaptured. Pekala testified that he felt "cheated" at having to shoulder the blame for a crime he was ordered to commit. Said Pekala: "I know now that there is no aim so high to justify the killing...
...nation goes imperfectly on. Teen-agers commit suicide, for reasons that baffle. The homeless sleep in our doorways or on warm-air grates. The monster deficit, which some say is the equivalent of nuclear doom, presides over the vestibule. America has been on a spending binge for years, and the arithmetic is ominous...
...other of preparing for outright warfare. The U.S. claimed that it had sighted six Soviet ships laden with arms and bound for Nicaragua. Perhaps chastened by mistaken allegations last month that Soviet MiG-21 fighter planes were being unloaded in the Nicaraguan port of Corinto, the Administration did not commit itself to specifying what arms the ships were carrying. But President Reagan warned again last week that if sophisticated Soviet aircraft are sent to Central America, "this is something we cannot sit back and just take...
...Administration has been at odds with itself over compliance since its first days in office. In his initial press conference as President, on Jan. 29, 1981, Reagan said the Soviets "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." Among the newly appointed officials who took that statement very literally was David Sullivan, a former CIA analyst who had made a career of documenting alleged Soviet violations of SALT. He served briefly in the ACDA in the State Department building...