Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eve of the resumption of dis- armament negotiations in Geneva last week, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mixed some tough talk on the nuclear arms race with conciliatory noises about the need for East-West detente. During a meeting in Moscow with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Gorbachev dismissed the first round of the Geneva negotiations, completed in April, as "completely fruitless" and insisted that U.S. plans for space weapons, or Star Wars, research would "dramatically increase the threat of a truly global, all-destroying military conflict...
From the age of vaudeville to the eve of the age of music videos, the white- owned Apollo nurtured black music. When the Beatles, on their first visit to the U.S., were asked what they wanted to see, No. 1 on their list was the Apollo. But after blacks broke into the mainstream and could play larger houses for larger fees, the Apollo declined. In 1976 it closed and lapsed into the realm of remembrance, like vaudeville at the Palace or P.T. Barnum's extravaganzas at the Hippodrome. Now it has been opened again by black businessmen, led by former...
...forget--but move on. These two themes impel Reagan on the eve of his trip. "I am hopeful that when people see and hear the tone of that day of remembering they will understand. I recognize that when I said once in answer to a question that the people in that cemetery, even though they were the enemy, the conquered enemy, that they too were victims of Nazism, someone interpreted that as meaning that they were as much victims as were the people in the Holocaust. No. The people in those camps have a memory that I doubt any other...
...President's critics dismissed the charges as an attempt to win public sympathy before announcing tough economic measures to curb the national inflation rate, now approaching 900%. Alfonsin's timing was troubling, even if the charges were untrue. They came on the eve of the opening of the civil trial of nine members of the military juntas that ruled the country from 1976 to 1982. The trial, in Buenos Aires' gothic Tribunales building, is expected to last for several months as six judges hear evidence of alleged human rights abuses against suspected subversives. An estimated 9,000 Argentines disappeared during...
...most intriguing aspect of No Magic Bullet's is Brandt's analysis of the military's campaign against V.D. On the eve of World War I, the stereotypical macho image of men in uniform rang true; in 1917 the War Department was so alarmed by training camp reports of drunkenness and carousing with wanton women that it promised soldiers "invisible armor" to protect them against the "heated temptations" of immorality. A Commission on Training Camp Activities was created with the objective of not only cleaning up the extra-curricular activities of the soldiers but using the American military...