Word: foreign
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...uncertain the game becomes on The Blue X Conspiracy, the more cautious the players turn on both sides. When word reaches the Soviets that the Afghan mujahedin rebels, backed by the U.S., have attacked the key Afghan air base at Bagram with chemical weapons, Georgi Korniyenko, a retired Deputy Foreign Minister and longtime aide to Andrei Gromyko, warns his colleagues not to "jump to the conclusion that this step was sanctioned by the highest leadership of the U.S. Administration...
...single day in Washington recently, Wattleton testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee (she tangled with Representative Christopher Smith of New Jersey, a zealous pro-life advocate), planned pro-choice strategy with Representatives Don Edwards of Florida and Pat Schroeder of Colorado (she urged them to introduce a federal pro-choice statute), had a get-acquainted session with Democratic National Committee head Ronald Brown (she told him that Webster backlash will help the Democrats) and then capped off the day by conferring with Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon (she pressed him about a pro-choice constitutional amendment, a dream...
Like other department-store chains, B. Altman has been hurt by weak retail sales and tough competition from specialty outlets. Several other chains are for sale by their foreign owners: Canada's Campeau is trying to unload Bloomingdale's, while Britain's B.A.T Industries has put Saks Fifth Avenue and Marshall Field's on the block. However, Altman's problems went deeper, in part because it had acquired a dowdy, passe image. The company might have been turned around by the right owner, but Herscu, saddled with $1.5 billion in debts, had neither the cash nor the vision to pull...
...Swiss military has not engaged foreign troops since 1815, when Napoleon's army withdrew after a 17-year occupation. As a result of Switzerland's extraordinary military preparedness, no aggressor since then has seen fit to challenge its control of the mountain passes. Last week, however, the Swiss army suffered a rare setback -- not in battle, but at the polls...
...rest of the world, however, she has remained one of liberty's most potent symbols. And for the U.S. she represents one of the few genuine foreign policy triumphs of the decade -- the moral shift in American diplomatic thinking away from collaborating with authoritarian allies to standing with democracy. Last week, when it came to a choice between a military putsch that might have brought a vicious but strategic stability to the Philippines and a woman who headed the weak but nevertheless legitimate government of the country, Washington chose Aquino...