Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London. As a result, the city's ever thriving stage scene has hit its high point of the past few years. The leading trio of shows is better than anything -- revival, new musical or new play -- offered in New York City this past season, and London's other offerings far exceed Broadway's current roster in both quality and quantity. More shows are running in the West End this week than appeared on Broadway during the entire past season...
...exchange program of sorts: his former counterpart, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, came to the U.S. last summer. Akhromeyev, now a close adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, accompanied Crowe on an eleven-day, nine-stop tour that stretched from Murmansk in the far north to Sochi on the Black Sea. Last week Crowe was summoned to the Kremlin for an audience with Gorbachev. The Soviet leader used the occasion to compliment the man who had appointed Crowe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1985: "Former President Reagan saw the way things should go and turned the situation in the right direction...
...Akhromeyev's trip to the U.S. last year, he remarked privately that the experience had convinced him that the U.S. would never start a war. The Soviets clearly hoped Crowe's return visit would inspire a reciprocal conviction. But Crowe was not willing to go quite that far. He left for home, he said, "understanding emotionally what I'd only understood intellectually before: the vastness of the real estate for which the Soviet armed forces are responsible, and the historical vulnerability to invasion. That's something hard for Americans to conceive of. After all, we don't remember being invaded...
...Memories plant, which may cost as much as $1 billion to build, will not be ready for at least a year and a half. "They're going to have to hurry up if they don't want to fall too far behind," says Sam Navarro, who follows the industry for the investment firm Ladenburg, Thalmann. Despite the time squeeze, some experts believe U.S. Memories could capture 30% to 40% of the U.S. chip market...
...invariably two agendas at work, one psychological, the other political. "We Jews see the dialogues as a way of dashing stereotypes," says Leora Frucht, an Israeli writer. "The Palestinians want more. They say to us, 'We know you're here to assuage your guilt, and that's fine as far as it goes. Now what we need is to organize some joint actions.' They want us to refuse army service and lie down with them in front of the bulldozers when an Arab house is ordered destroyed. Because we won't do things like that, the Palestinians leave with unfulfilled...