Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the game, Restic is worried about team depth and injuries. Especially when his squad must face Army on artificial turf the next week...
...return to Managua of four civilians at an agricultural cooperative in San Miguelito, southeast of the capital, an attack the government pinned on the contras. At a sunrise press conference the next morning, an emphatic, often stinging Ortega insisted that his government "cannot continue being patient" in the face of contra "terrorism" and would "hit the contras hard." The Nicaraguan President blamed Washington's refusal to disband the contras for the resumption of fighting and hinted darkly that U.S. backing of the rebels could affect whether or not Nicaraguans go to the polls. Warned Ortega...
...details of the discussion, however, will prove to be far less significant than the long-anticipated encounter between the two leaders. The eleven months that George Bush has required before he would come face-to-face with Mikhail Gorbachev is more time than it took for Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev to meet and overcome their mutual suspicion. The 1985 Geneva summit between Gorbachev and Reagan proved that a get-together need not end with formal agreements to produce important results. In their staterooms off Malta, the U.S. and Soviet Presidents may finally launch a partnership to deal with the difficult...
...Lutherans brace for the ordination of a lesbian couple, Catholics face new reports indicating widespread homosexuality among priests. Can -- and should -- the age-old barrier be dropped...
...Katyn case. Since then, the Soviets have delayed a formal verdict. But officials, eager to clear the air before Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's arrival in Moscow later this month, want to hasten a judgment. Applauding Gorbachev for making a "historic break with Stalinism," Brzezinski offered a face-saving way out. "Many Soviet people were also victims of Stalinism," he said. "So the acknowledgment of these crimes should lead to reconciliation, not to hatred...