Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The optimism on arms control in the Washington at week's end contrasted sharply with the gloom in Moscow on the previous Friday. At that time Gorbachev startled Secretary of State George Shultz with a sudden declaration that he "felt uncomfortable" about setting a date to meet Reagan in the...
For South Africa, Huntington sees two major obstacles to such a negotiated national accord. First, the government is neither collapsing nor withdrawing, and shows no sign of wishing to "voluntarily negotiate its own demise." While the government is weakened, it remains far more powerful than any Black groups, "which have...
If the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences intended to signal its disapproval of the Reagan Administration's economic programs, it could not have picked a better week to do so, or a better man to deliver the message. Robert Solow, 63, who last week won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize...
Yet the show overleaps these obstacles to deliver entertainment of shocking power and perverse pleasure. Where Anything Goes laughs off the financial turbulence of the early 1930s -- its plot involves a stock-market mistake that engenders a fortune -- Cabaret dwells on the ugliness brought out by that era's economic...
A wild ride in a Paris taxi can be an electrifying experience. Soon, it may prove to be even more shocking. Cabbies, alarmed by a recent wave of attacks by passengers, are eyeing a device called le siege qui brule, the hot seat. Wires beneath the rear seats are connected...