Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These forecasts are close to the bottom of the range of predictions being made by non-Government economists. Some Congressmen think Reagan and his aides are intentionally being excessively pessimistic, so that they can claim later (around election eve 1984, say) that their policies have produced a faster recovery than even they foresaw. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan denies that. Says he: "We are not deliberately offering a low-ball forecast...
...growing anxiety among the Western allies, caused by the hard U.S. line in negotiations with the Soviets over intermediate-range missiles, a long-planned vice presidential trip suddenly became a belated counteroffensive against recent successes scored by the Soviet peace offensive in Western Europe. Said Bush on the eve of his departure: "Our strength lies in unity, and we are unified in what essentially is a strong moral position-banishing a whole new generation of intermediate-range nuclear missiles from the face of the earth...
...treaty, refuses to comment on previously unpublicized details of the U.S. position, such as the restrictions on SS-18s and SS-19s. But he defends the attempt to limit Soviet throw weight. "Warheads and throw weight go hand in hand," he said in an interview with TIME on the eve of his departure for Geneva. While calling his job "one of the toughest around," Rowny is convinced that for reasons of their own military self-interest, the Soviets may yet accept an agreement based on the U.S. proposal. Says Rowny: "What we're asking them...
Despite the long hours that he is putting in at his new job, Yasuhiro Nakasone was relaxed last week in his spartan but spacious office in the 1920s-style official Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo. On the eve of his first meeting with Ronald Reagan, Nakasone, nattily attired in a well-cut gray suit and soft black leather loafers, discussed a wide range of U.S.-Japanese concerns with TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Edwin Reingold. Highlights...
...auspicious start for the coming year. On New Year's Eve, six people, all but one of them white, were killed in a spree of violence near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. In an especially gruesome incident, the throat of a 71-year-old farmer was slit ear to ear. Only days earlier, a pack of 15 to 20 armed men wearing green camouflage uniforms and animal-skin caps had halted traffic on the Bulawayo-Gweru Highway, spraying buses and cars with gunfire and then torching three of the vehicles. Three blacks died, and 21 were injured...