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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said yesterday that a meeting during the United Nations session could also give Bush the chance to build on recent positive Soviet moves around the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorbachev to Meet With Reagan, Bush | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

...often argued, it doesn't seem like a great imposition to ask United States citizens to learn the nation's native language. After all, learning a new language hardly seems too much to ask in exchange for the benefits of living in a free society. And having pockets of foreign-speaking people might have a divisive effect on the unity of the nation, the referenda supporters claimed...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Se Habla Inglés | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

...often argued, it doesn't seem like a great imposition to ask United States citizens to learn the nation's native language. After all, learning a new language hardly seems too much to ask in exchange for the benefits of living in a free society. And having pockets of foreign-speaking people might have a divisive effect on the unity of the nation, the referenda supporters claimed...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Se Habla InglŽs | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

Thatcher made a modest offer to give Poles management training but snubbed the government's pleas for Western loans and relief on Poland's $36.4 billion foreign debt. The day when Polish officials grant real political freedoms, she said, "you will find your friends ready, not just to stand and cheer, but to help in practical ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Hail Maggie, the Mentor | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...stinging editorial that called this year's contest a "terrible campaign, a national disappointment," the Post faulted Bush for rhetoric that was "divisive, unworthy and unfair," but its pivotal objection was to what it saw as Dukakis' weak grasp of foreign policy. Other papers sounded almost ) regretful at having to choose either man. The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer editorial-page editor, Ed Williams, said his paper backed Dukakis "unenthusiastically," but pointed out that "voters do not enjoy the luxury of not endorsing." The Times decried a "no-issue campaign" in which George Bush has run "irrelevantly, like someone seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: To Endorse or Not | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

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