Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impending showdown constitutes a survival test for Saddam Hussein's leadership. On the eve of battle, he moves peripatetically among his soldiers and civilians, escorting Western visitors around Baghdad to convince them that he enjoys the full support of his people. He clearly does, despite the increasingly disastrous consequences of the war. Some 100,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in a fruitless bid to seize control of the Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature...
...Vienna summit between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. Rowny, 65, a retired Army lieutenant general, was the representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT n). He opposed compromises made during the talks and quit the delegation in protest on the eve of the treaty-signing ceremony. He then devoted himself to defeating SALT II in the Senate and to electing Ronald Reagan as President...
Some regard them as parvenues, pouter pigeons or Gorgons. To Stephen Birmingham, a writer with an affinity for chronicling the vagaries of the rich ("Our Crowd"; The Right People) they are The Grandes Dames, women who ruled society from the 1880s to the eve of World War II. This bemused, anecdotal history follows the parabolas of such great and sometimes terrifying socialites as Bostonian Isabella Gardner. The recipient of letters from Henry James, Emerson and Whittier could have sprung from the pages of Alice in Wonderland. She envied but one person in the world: the Dowager Empress of China "because...
...eve of Begin's departure for the U.S. last week, his seven-member Cabinet committee presented Habib with a communiqué titled "A Basic Proposal Regarding the Arrangements for the Future." Among other things, it called for an Israeli-Lebanese peace treaty, an end to the use of Lebanon as a terrorist base, Lebanese government responsibility for demilitarization and related agreements, the removal of all foreign forces from Lebanese soil, and a 25-mile-wide buffer zone on Israel's northern border to be policed by some form of international peacekeeping force...
...Soviet Union: a string of arms-control proposals coupled with unyielding resistance to Soviet expansionism. Touring Europe two weeks ago, the President waved the olive branch so heavily that he stirred talk of a "new Reagan"-flexible, centrist and eager to negotiate. But last week, almost on the eve of new U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks, he decided to highlight the other aspect of his strategy. The old Reagan abruptly reappeared, rattling the arrows...