Word: contactable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NICE GUY. Later this year West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will launch a program to refurbish U.S. military bases and improve community relations with American troops in the Federal Republic. Why is Kohl playing Mr. Nice Guy? Bonn sources say he is concerned that shabby barracks and lack of contact with German civilians can turn G.I.s into ambassadors of ill will when they return home. He also hopes to head off any "German bashing" by Bush over Bonn's contributions to its own defense...
...Chinatown a dozen or so blocks north to Cooper Square. "Oh, if I just wanted to stand here and give them away, I could get rid of 1,000 in an hour. Easy. But I prefer to go looking for the people I want. The ones who avoid eye contact. It is not so much the gloves, but telling people they count...
...clues to the fate of Flight 103 would be contained within the plane's two flight recorders, both of which were recovered from the wreckage. But on Friday they could find nothing abnormal on the voice tape save for a "faint unquantified noise" an instant before Flight 103 lost contact. They were hoping, however, that within a few days they would have further clues as to whether the Christmas tragedy at Lockerbie carried with it a murderous message of political symbolism...
...clearly outlined but fresh with the potential for progress. The announcement sent a wave of approval through the West European and Arab communities, which have long urged the U.S. to end its increasingly futile code of silence. The move shocked Israel, which now stands alone in rejecting all contact with the P.L.O. With only a few weeks left in office, Ronald Reagan gave George Bush a huge Christmas present: the opportunity to make real progress in the Middle East without taking the heat for a fiercely controversial decision...
...Foreign Ministry is headed by Shimon Peres, head of the left-leaning Labor Party, which has been more flexible on the issue of talking to the PLO than the right-wing Likud bloc led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Shamir has ruled out any contact...