Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This cannot continue," said Ronald Reagan in a formal statement rushed out by the White House after the Frankfurt bombing and San Salvador killings. The statement promised consultation with U.S. allies "to determine what actions, military and otherwise," can be taken against terrorists. In a speech in Dallas on Friday, the President linked those outrages with the TWA hijacking as constituting "an attack on all Western civilization by uncivilized barbarians." He quoted Theodore Roosevelt: "The American people are slow to wrath, but once their wrath is kindled it burns like a consuming flame...
Weinberger and Lehman made their proposals after a formal assessment of the damages caused by the family-and-friend spy ring. The good news, the Navy said last week, was that the U.S. fleet of ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs), the most important element of the nation's sea, air and land nuclear deterrent, seems secure. Admiral James Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations, said SSBN tactics and equipment have changed greatly in the 18 years since John Walker served on two nuclear subs. "We remain convinced that our SSBN force is still 100% survivable," he said...
Botswana rejected South African claims that the dead were ANC guerrillas, referring to them instead as "South African refugees." It has accused South Africa of trying to bring pressure on Botswana to sign a formal nonaggression treaty similar to the ones it now has with Swaziland and Mozambique. Last week's raid also appeared to be designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the ANC just before the organization's planned weekend "summit" meeting at an undisclosed location in southern Africa, where the rebels were expected to plan their future campaign against the South African government...
...constructivists fanned the air with their manifestos. Kertesz felt the breeze but sailed his own course. He absorbed the lessons of constructivism, without becoming an arctic formalist. His fellow Hungarian expatriate Laszlo Moholy-Nagy could turn people into compositional load bearers upholding a grand design. Kertesz linked his formal sense to benign temperament. Joining elegant compositions to gentle human anecdotes, he achieved a formalism with the juice still flowing...
Hussein also delicately redefined his insistence on an international conference as the forum for Israeli-Arab negotiations. The U.S. and Israel have opposed such a framework because it would give the Soviet Union a formal role in Middle East talks; Washington favors direct contacts between Israel and the Arabs. Last week Hussein suggested that he would be willing to negotiate under an international "umbrella." Translation: the primary parties, Israel and the Arabs, would meet face to face under the guidance of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. Said the King: "When I speak of negotiations, I obviously mean...