Word: dustup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life, Battle is said to live up to her last name. By reputation she is a temperamental prima donna who can be cold or even hostile to colleagues, a master of the brisk nod or, worse, the blank stare. Backstage, Met staffers are still talking about her dustup with Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa during the production of Strauss's Arabella. Battle, it seems, wanted some cuts in the music restored, at which Te Kanawa balked. Heated words were exchanged. Battle claims to be mystified by her fearsome reputation. Says she: "I can't think of an instance that I voiced...
...nations in San Francisco last week, Secretary of State George Shultz emphasized that the U.S. plans no change in its Star Wars testing program. So what else is new? Just this: before Shultz could make that statement, Ronald Reagan had to settle a bitter dispute among his senior advisers.The dustup briefly threatened to scuttle the Antiballistic Missile Treaty...
...last week a quiet imbroglio between the National Endowment for Democracy, a bipartisan organization funded by Congress, which helped pay for the bookselection process, and the International Freedom to Publish Committee, a unit of the Association of American Publishers, which appointed the selectors, developed into a nasty politico-literary dustup as the NED charged that the list was philosophically "one-sided." The IFP accused the NED of would-be censorship and then announced that it would return the $12,000 it had already received from the group and refuse the remainder of the promised $50,000 unless there...
...dialogue with Chun," with whom, he said, he had no "political vendetta." In the end, his future may depend on the U.S. attitude toward South Korea. While the Reagan Administration has not pressed Chun overly hard, at least publicly, on the subject of human rights, last week's dustup could prompt a rethinking of Washington's position...
...This dustup came as the House was working on its version of the fiscal 1984 Defense budget, which in theory was to have been wrapped up and in effect on Oct. 1. The $263 billion package contains $247 billion for the Department of Defense and $16 billion of military monies in other budget bills. The House approved funds for the nation's first 21 MX missiles and for the B-1 bomber but voted against producing chemical weaponry that had been requested by the Administration. On the Senate side, legislators voted in favor of the new chemical weapons...