Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shevardnadze's remarks as "desirable" and added that the initial Soviet withdrawal should be "front-end loaded," meaning that large numbers of the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan should pull out quickly "so that once it starts, there's a certain inevitability to it." Shultz added a new demand, insisting that all Soviet military aid to Afghanistan cease after the pullout. On a conciliatory note, he reiterated that the U.S. would similarly cut off arms supplies for the mujahedin, Afghanistan's rebels. The U.S., he said, might taper off its arms shipments to the rebels as the Soviets retreated...
...documented evidence of his deceitfulness ought now to be ignored. "Lying and cheating are serious charges against anyone," says Washington Post Political Reporter James Dickenson, "and it is not sensationalist or irrelevant to examine them." Even as the public resents the intrusiveness of the press, it will continue to demand to know as much as possible about the people who seek to guide the future of the nation. Thus questions about Hart's personal morality, judgment and truthfulness will continue to be explored, and rightly...
...decade's reigning comic soloist, master of the improvised trip through his own weird inner space, he generally arrives onscreen bearing the burden of our heightened hopes for a divine madness. Up to now, his genius has not fit any known film format. Narrative obligations and the implicit demand that leading characters be sane, likable and consistent have always constrained...
...ever end the cycle of war, disease and overpopulation that helps to keep it poor and famished? Most African governments, including those much less radical than Ethiopia, continue to be wedded to quasi-socialist, postcolonial economic policies that reduce agricultural productivity, even as populations soar and create a voracious demand for more food. "In contemporary Africa, both rural starvation and rising levels of urban employment are the outcome of a set of agricultural policies designed to subsidize the cost of living of urban consumers at the expense of rural producers," says Michael Lofchie, an Africa expert at UCLA. Since...
Verification. The INF pact has precedent-setting provisions that allow the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to inspect each other's missile sites for evidence of cheating. Some conservative Senators, however, may want an amendment providing for the investigation on demand of "suspect sites" not enumerated in the treaty. That would be strongly opposed by both the White House and the Pentagon. In fact, the Soviets agreed to this idea in principle earlier this year, but the U.S. rejected the notion after defense officials realized it would work both ways; they did not want Soviet inspectors poking around classified facilities...