Word: exits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That same year, she returned to the public stage as Washington's emissary to Italy, the first American woman to be named ambassador to a major power. As usual, Luce made a spectacular entrance and exit: in her first major speech, just a couple of weeks before the Italian general election, she broke nearly every unwritten rule by eschewing diplomatic platitudes in favor of a pointed warning about the "grave consequences" for voters if they became "unhappy victims of totalitarianism of the right or of the left." Four years later, she resigned for reasons of health: dust laced with lead...
Melissa B. Milgram '88, a coorganizer of the event, said that 400,000 Jews have applied for exit visas, 5000 of whom have received them this year...
Begun's elderly mother and his wife Inna will also be allowed to leave, along with more than a dozen other Soviet Jews who have been campaigning for exit permits for years. Moscow's move is evidently intended to gain favor with the West in anticipation of a summit this fall between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
General Manuel Antonio Noriega rules the Latin American country from behind the scenes as its military commander. Now some Panamanians are demanding that he make an exit. -- Six technicians go on trial in the Soviet Union to face charges that they caused the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. -- Tapes reveal a bizarre plot by Ferdinand Marcos to invade the Philippines...
...Presidents, and, as is so often the case, the last act is a welter of charges and countercharges, scandal and disillusion. Still, Reagan is fighting, smiling. His standing with his people is edging up a bit. There will be dining and toasting and travel, a just rite of exit. But the power is palpably fading. It is being gathered up in strange little places like Greenfield, Iowa, where the latter-day populist Jesse Jackson tramps through the cornfields, and Campton, N.H., where Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis sounds native...