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...number of them this week to hammer home the point. The evidence Reagan was able to reveal about a planned Cuban-Soviet buildup on that minuscule island provided, albeit after the fact, additional justification for the American action. Although the hazardous situation of U.S. forces in Lebanon caused widespread dismay, the anger and frustration over the Beirut bombing seemed to be counterbalanced by the relatively clean strike in the Caribbean. New Hampshire Democrat Robert Stephen, a state senator whose son took part in the Grenada invasion, describes the impression he got from talking to his constituents and customers...
Firm in our free beliefs without dismay...
Proposed by Prime Minister P.W. Botha to the dismay of some white nationalist supporters of the apartheid regime, the constitution would attempt to change South African politics by rendering them dependent on class interests rather than racial concerns. This has naturally led to fierce political infighting among leaders of the Afrikan Nationalist Party. Yet the practical effects of Botha's proposal, which has already been approved by the white Parliament, would be negligible, at least in relation to addressing the issue of Black rights...
Growing so hugely expensive that they have been threatening to collapse under their own deficits, the Games have not been at such risk since A.D. 394, when the athletes' grumbling displeasure with olive-wreath prizes caused Roman Emperor Theodosius I to halt the competition in dismay for 1,502 years. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French idealist whose practical side was underrated, revived the Olympics in 1896 in the name of international amity but with a plea for fiscal sanity that is near to the heart of Peter Ueberroth, 46, the Olympian Cash McCall. For, in a way, this...
...something kept the two men talking. They feared for their images. In this skirmish, Gromyko faltered. He suggested to the world that his government would do it again, and the shock waves were visible on the faces of the world's reporters. They, in turn, conveyed their dismay to readers and listeners back home. But the Soviets could not run off and close the doors as they used...