Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear escalation," Secretary of State James Baker asserted in a television interview, "I don't think it's ((an area)) that if it incubates further, it blows up." Somewhat testily, Bush also applied the brakes: "I don't want to be stampeded by the fact that the Soviet Foreign Minister takes a trip to the Middle East." Though he praised Shevardnadze's trip as a "good thing," the President reiterated that the Soviet role in the region "should be limited." Shevardnadze had a canny response: "This is very sad because it injects an element of rivalry that is unnecessary." Then...
...most dramatic moments of Shevardnadze's trip were saved for his 2 1/2- hour meeting with Arens. Building on a flirtation that began several years ago, the two Foreign Ministers made history by holding their meeting on Arab soil. They pledged to continue their bilateral courtship at a high diplomatic level, though they accomplished nothing concrete that would further the peace process. On specifics, they had little in common. Shevardnadze pressed Arens to drop Israel's opposition to an international peace conference and talk to the P.L.O. Arens replied by urging Shevardnadze to sign on to Jerusalem's preference...
...bloc. That very act seemed to signal some thaw in the "cold peace" that prevails between the two countries. Shevardnadze's revival of the international-conference proposal skillfully shored up the Arab moderates who have long advocated it, and his presence in Cairo, the first visit by a Soviet Foreign Minister since 1975, invigorated long-dormant Soviet influence in Egypt...
...corridors of the neoclassical House of Trade Unions building were dark when Boris Yeltsin, 58, Moscow's former Communist Party leader, emerged from a conference room to speak to journalists and admirers waiting in the hall. Yeltsin looked weary but triumphant. "Boris Nikolayevich! How does it feel?" shouted a foreign reporter. "All of Moscow will vote!" Yeltsin beamed. "Can you imagine what that means...
While the threatened author of The Satanic Verses remains in hiding, Khomeini aims his ire at those "misled liberals" who dare to support renewed relations with the West. -- The Soviet Foreign Minister storms the Middle East, trying to win friends and influence adversaries. -- The bumpy road to Soviet elections. -- A Japanese Emperor is laid to rest and so is a turbulent...