Word: depths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poles began to mark the two weeks of emotional anniversaries that will climax on Aug. 31, the date when the Polish government signed a national accord two years ago with Solidarity, the true depth of the "invisible" hatred had yet to be measured. However unlikely another outburst of widespread national unrest seemed last week, it still could not be counted out. There is a precedent: two years ago at the Lenin shipyard, when one strike came to an end and another of a totally different sort began...
Bush has not changed his views of history because of his vantage point inside the White House. But some ideas have been enlarged. The Vice President has noticed a greater depth of feeling about Abraham Lincoln than he had sensed before. Seated beside a woman from India at a recent dinner in the White House, Bush was startled when she talked about "the beauty" in the painting of Lincoln over the mantle and how Lincoln looked different in that picture at that moment than she had imagined all her life...
...Israel, told the press that the damage they had seen in Tyre and Sidon was the worst that they had ever observed in any war area, only to have to admit they had never seen any other war areas. The group proved to be totally out of its depth too when meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who chided his visitors schoolmarmishly for being "taken in" by Arafat. Begin asked McCloskey to point to the West Bank on an unmarked map. The nonplused Californian was unable to do so. Nor did McCloskey improve his standing in Israeli eyes when...
...skillful political and legal maneuvering. The issue, discussed at some length last week during the 21st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Governors' Conference in Des Moines, is control of the water. Containing some 67 trillion gal. of fresh water, enough to cover all of the U.S. to a depth of 10 ft., the Great Lakes are a priceless asset to those who live and work along their shores. More than 24 million people in the U.S. and Canada depend on them for drinking water. Industries in both countries draw off 55 billion gal. a year...
...release of Walesa would not change these strategic calculations. It has become increasingly clear that Washington's hopes of blocking the pipeline were slim. At most, American sanctions might delay construction, and that hardly seemed worth the cost in European ill-will. The White House clearly underestimated the depth of European resentment, despite warnings from, among others, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig (the pipeline furor played no small part in his abrupt resignation last month). British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, visiting Washington shortly after the sanctions were tightened, vehemently protested the move. A surprised Reagan responded...