Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening words of the document sounded like a declaration of war: "The people have spoken. Or tried to. Despite the obstacles thrown in the way of their speaking freely, we the bishops believe what they attempted to say is clear enough. In our considered judgment, the polls were unparalleled in the fraudulence of their conduct...
...government is inflexible to reasonable compromise where Central America is concerned. The Latin American ministers met with a cool response from Shultz last month in Washington. The Reagan Administration refuses to alter its unremitting campaign against Nicaragua. As one leading official is reported to have said, "Contadora's document of objectives includes pluralism, democracy, and reconciliation. How do you get the Sandinist Communists to agree with that? The answer seems to me clear, and it is pressure." Military pressure, of course...
...interested in improving relations with a Communist regime it had refused to recognize for more than two decades. Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, a retired CIA analyst on trial as a spy for China, last week testified that in 1970 he had passed to Peking a document containing a secret message from Richard Nixon to Congress outlining his intention to work toward rapprochement...
Chin, who earned at least $300,000 as a spy from 1952 to 1985, offered his remarkable admission in an attempt to characterize his espionage as a personal campaign for reconciliation between his homeland and his adopted country. Of the Nixon document, he said, "I thought if that information could be brought to the attention of the Chinese leadership it might break the ice." It took the jury just 3 1/2 hours to find Chin guilty on 17 felony charges, including six counts of espionage-related activities. Chin faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment...
...kind of perverse romance, with each wistfully trying to break down barriers. In Chicago, the struggle is for power: Morton endows the woman with toughness, and Peterson portrays the questioner as an unimaginative bureaucrat striving for advancement. Remains has made the show less lyrical but more contemporary, a document of the implacability of all unjust governments...