Word: foreign
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...also a new administration in our Nation section. Isaacson has been guiding our coverage of America's political landscape since 1986. Now he will concentrate on two formidable new projects: a full-length biography of Henry Kissinger and, as a senior writer for TIME, pieces ranging from essays on foreign policy to profiles of cultural figures...
...vibrate." Such moments partake of the miraculous. Equally remarkable is O'Brien's ability to make Anna's narrative seem casual, almost random, when in fact each incident, each encounter, adds another piece to a puzzle that Anna must solve. The villagers begin to mutter when they see the foreign woman so often in the company of Catalina. Anna, who thinks she has retreated to this place because she has loved and lost, must learn from her young friend that true devotion can begin only when loss and sacrifice are taken for granted...
...candidates were encouraged to talk about everything but what was happening under their feet. The ground was slipping out from under Americans -- to foreign investors, to revenue collection that has become a vast servicing of our debt, to cold war commitments that do not exude power but exhaust it, to involuntary and unconfessed curtailments of our postwar imperial mission. Who could advert to these amid the smoke of muskets and the feeble blaze of opposed "likabilities...
Bush will face a far easier road in foreign affairs. With the exception of a deteriorating situation in Central America, the world map could hardly look friendlier. The Soviets appear eager to ease tensions, improve trade, talk arms control and relieve pressure on their disastrous domestic economy. Bush says he has learned the value of a hard-line, waiting approach from Reagan. He will be more eager than Reagan to exploit the new foreign policy trends in the Soviet Union, though he will be extremely cautious about destabilizing Eastern Europe and prompting a Soviet crackdown...
South Africa's government and foreign journalists have been at swords' points since 1986 laws declaring a state of emergency squelched most reporting on racial unrest. So Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha should hardly have been surprised when the Foreign Correspondents Association's annual banquet last week turned into an angry slanging match. Botha gave as good...