Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long is the reach of foreign terrorists? For years the FBI as well as private U.S. experts has offered a soothing answer: while Americans abroad are vulnerable, there is little danger at home. But last week Oliver Revell, the FBI's second ranking official, told a congressional subcommittee that a "hard core" of 300 among the more than 10,000 Iranians who have come to the U.S. as students bear careful watching. Some, he said, are members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard whose real interests are far from academic...
...omen seekers, the outward signs were propitious. Secretary of State James Baker bounded down the stairs, hurried to Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's side and offered a hearty handshake. Smiling and pumping arms, they then began their maiden meeting in the glittering, baroque Festsaal in the sprawling Hofburg, that imperial crescent of stone buildings in the heart of Vienna. The locale was rich with inspiration: in 1815 the Congress of Vienna convened at the nearby chancellery to redraw the political face of Europe. Last week's gathering of 35 foreign ministers ushered in a modern-day reprise to redraft...
...response, the U.S.-led NATO proposal sounded modest and a bit miserly. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe spelled out the West's starting position, warning that NATO was not interested in a "competitive striptease." The plan, which he said went "far beyond bean counting," in essence called for deep cuts in the Eastern forces, with only minor reductions of up to 10% in NATO dispositions. Baker gave a more philosophical speech, but it was thin on specifics and failed to counter Shevardnadze's longer-range proposals...
...Latin America, have seen their debt climb to more than $500 billion, from $350 billion in 1981. The debt load has left local economies a shambles and fragile democracies threatened. After 300 people died in Venezuela two weeks ago ( during riots over austerity measures imposed to pay off foreign debt, the Bush Administration decided that the time had come...
...found himself compelled to rebut allegations by the central figure in the multimillion-dollar banking scandal that the Prime Minister personally received some of those millions as secret payments for political favor. The accusations, which ran in TIME and as a cover story in several of the magazine's foreign editions, inspired passionate outcry in Greece and provoked opposition leaders in Parliament to demand the Prime Minister's resignation...