Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lead to greater diplomatic leaps. Reagan's political advisers hope that they will dispel the growing perception that the President is too rigid in dealing with the Soviets and unable to choose between his feuding advisers. But the aging leaders in the Kremlin, plagued by their own internal disarray, show little desire to see these vague hopes fulfilled-at least not in a year when Ronald Reagan is running for reelection. -By William R. Doerner. Reported by Douglas Brew and Johanna McGeaty/Washington
...mass arrests of Berkeley students during the Free Speech Movement of the mid-'60s and prosecuted radicals such as Huey Newton and the kidnapers of Patty Hearst. Jensen does not need Senate confirmation, but his tenuous status could be an election-year liability, reminding voters of the disarray at the department and the ethical quandaries that have plagued Reagan's Administration. Lamented a top White House adviser: "We are just going to have to live with...
...resistance must finally yield to his astonishing, youthful 33-year-old's confidence. What has arrived on Broadway is, assuredly, a classic of the modern theater. And one leaves it not with a sense of relief at a cultural duty properly discharged, but in that state of disarray and wonder that occurs when artists actually manage to act on the poet's simple, hard advice and ' 'make it new.'' -By Richard Schickel
...Greens in disarray...
...West Germany's unconventional Green Party, those antics at its political conference in Karlsruhe's Black Forest convention center were only the most recent evidence of the disarray within its ranks. Launched four years ago as a broad coalition of peace activists, environmentalists and ex-Marxists, the Greens had promised an antiparty party that would rise above the infighting and compromise of traditional politics. Instead, the party has become fragmented, and fighting has broken out among the factions. Some Greens had hoped that the caucus would bring reconciliation. A battle over nominees for election to the European Community...