Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party congress this week does not provoke Soviet intervention, the Ottawa conferees will talk at length about how far to go in shoring up the battered Polish economy, and how to coordinate their efforts. Reagan and his aides will also try hard to persuade the European leaders, who confront a rising tide of neutralist sentiment in their countries, that the U.S. does not intend to pursue a blindly rigid anti-Soviet foreign policy, but is receptive to eventual arms-control negotiations with the U.S.S.R. "The Europeans are worried that we are cutting off the lines of communication with Moscow...
...mullahs confront an emboldened breed of Islamic leftists...
...that is true, a revived concern about the Viet Nam veterans reflects an end to denial?perhaps even to anger. Says Yale Psychiatrist Art Blank, himself a vet: "America is trying to confront Viet Nam through the veterans; the country had suppressed the war, didn't want to deal with it." Now the nation may be evaluating the long-term damage...
...which makes the Harvard Summer Theatre Ensemble's production a very impressive feat. This performance, the ensemble's first, manages to take Shakespeare's improbable jumble and confront the maze of bleak themes. Yet it still maintains the delicate balance between humor and pathos which Shakespeare himself did not seem to have merged terribly well into the playwrighting...
That may be so, but some extremely heavy challenges remain for Schmidt. No later than the fall, he must confront the Bundestag with West Germany's 1982 budget. To restore balance to a faltering economy, he needs to make deep cuts in West Germany's cherished social programs. But that could unite in opposition antimilitary leftists in Schmidt's party with those who strongly favor continuing and expanding welfare programs. Schmidt's failure to overcome all of those foes could spell the end of his ruling coalition arrangement with the liberal Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.), which...