Word: displays
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...important allies, Japan and South Korea, as Reagan made the first trip to Asia of his presidency. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in particular, faces an election, perhaps as soon as December, in which his Liberal Democratic Party may lose parliamentary seats. He was anxious to display himself to Japanese voters as a world statesman closely consulted by an ally of whom he often says: "I call him Ron, and he calls me Yasu." The White House saw reciprocal advantages in giving a boost to Nakasone, whom it judges to be more cooperative on defense and foreign policy than most...
...another effort to shore up support for the invasion, the Administration placed captured Cuban weapons on display in a hangar at Andrews Air Force Base. The most formidable were two Soviet-built BTR-60 armored personnel carriers. Twelve of them had been spirited at night into Grenada 18 months ago by the Cubans, after electric power had been cut and roadblocks installed to conceal the unloading. Also on display were twelve ZU-23 antiaircraft guns, 291 submachine guns, 6,330 rifles and 5.6 million rounds of ammunition. The Pentagon termed the arms cache sufficient to equip two Cuban battalions (about...
...case, the Soviet authorities went to extraordinary lengths to blunt such a conclusion. Days earlier, Leonid Zamyatin, head of the Soviet Central Committee's international information department, had hinted broadly that Andropov might not appear at the parade because of his "cold." Soviet newspapers gave prominent display to photos of the larger-than-life Andropov portraits that appeared during the parade. Even though Chernenko took Andropov's place on the reviewing stand, the official party newspaper Pravda never once mentioned Chernenko's name in reporting the event...
Whether genuine or fabricated by party propagandists, the letters display undisguised fear. They suggest that the Czechoslovak regime is well aware of the tensions caused by the planned missile deployment, and that it is using its newspaper columns as a safety valve for volatile emotions...
...explosive tale of suburban English couples holidaying in June, playing bridge and going for cliff walks just as they have done for years. Swapping bed as often as bridge-partners, the bonds and tensions webbing these people together is wonderfully conveyed the prejudices and biases that the characters display in their attitudes both towards each other and towards Ireland are threaded subtly beneath the first-person narration of one of the wives. Theirs is an unambitious rural retreat in which "it was impossible to believe that somewhere else the unpleasantness was going on." The troubles of Ireland...