Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White House aides have launched a quiet inquiry of their own into the possibility of an FBI coverup. TIME has learned that on the eve of the confirmation hearings, the FBI informed Presidential Assistant Fred Fielding, then in charge of checking out nominees to high Administration positions, about a key piece of evidence that was not given to the Senate committee until long after Donovan had been confirmed...
Hinckley did, however, exhibit considerable emotion on a tape, released as evidence last week, that he made at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., on New Year's Eve 1980. By then he had become infatuated with Foster after seeing Taxi Driver as many as 15 times. In the movie, a crazed cabbie, played by Robert De Niro, sets out to assassinate a presidential candidate in an attempt to impress a child prostitute, played by Foster. Hinckley so identified with the film's anti-hero that he bought an Army fatigue jacket and took to drinking peach...
...only the Jews who wish to emigrate who are harrassed Many Soviet Jews recount incidents of K G B agents not only raiding secret Hebrew classes, threatening the teachers with imprisonment and interrogating children of kindergarten age. In October, on the eve of the Rosh Hashannah. Soviet police forcibly disperse the thousands of Jews who had gathered outside the synagogue on Archipove street to sing and dance. In the last year there has been a dramatic increase in the number of anti-Semitic books and articles published and therefore sanctioned by the government. Universities have begun to give separate...
Molander's organization does not endorse any specific arms control proposal, but the Reagan Administration is fearful that the spreading obsession with nuclear holocaust could pressure the U.S. to undertake an arms freeze prematurely. Both on the eve of Ground Zero's kickoff and during the week, the President felt obliged to express his sympathy with the fundamental fears of the participants. Yet he repeated his objection to an immediate freeze on nuclear weaponry; such an agreement, he argued, would simply lock in a supposed Soviet missile advantage...
...From the tone of his statements, however, it was clear that he was as impatient with Britain's intransigence as he was with Argentina's. "The leaders of both countries have assured me... that they are prepared to go on working with us," he said on the eve of his departure for Buenos Aires. "That will require flexibility on both sides-not abandonment of principle, but responsible and defensible adjustments...