Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain Anne Arm strong, White House Chief of Staff James Baker and former Governor William Clements, three obvious potential candidates, have said they will not run. The leading contender for the G.O.P. nomination is Congressman Phil Gramm, a boll weevil Democrat turned Republican who has all but made the formal announcement...
...neighboring Central African Republic, Mitterrand was able to launch a two-pronged diplomatic offensive. He dispatched key aides to a number of capitals to see if Gaddafi would consider a negotiated solution. Equally important, he took the initiative to silence his critics at home. In his first formal statement on France's involvement in Chad, he told the newspaper Le Monde that French troops were in Chad only as "instructors" who would provide "logistical support" and exercise a "dissuasive role." Mitterrand added that if threatened, French troops would "respond and, to defend themselves better, not limit their reply...
...open polo shirt, and his longish blond hair was tousled and curly. But the Russian accent was unmistakable, even as he began speaking in colloquial English: "The thing that I want to say is that I don't want to stay here." In another second came the more formal, doubtless well-rehearsed appeal: "I ask the American authorities to leave me alone, and let me go home...
Along with a copy of the report, the State Department sent a formal note to the French embassy in Washington two weeks ago, expressing "deep regrets" over the U.S. role. In France, where Barbie, 69, awaits trial in a Lyon jail, the official reaction was brusque. "Although frank, the U.S. report leads one to deplore the practices that allowed the Nazi criminal to avoid justice for a long time," said Max Gallo, a spokesman for President François Mitterrand...
...second chance now. The West Germans are promoting a revival of the plan, and the Soviets are saying they would "discuss" it. Their half of the discussion is likely to be another nyet, but there is only one way to find out. A firm Soviet rejection of a formal American walk-in-the-woods proposal would be bad news for the negotiations but might help bolster support for deployment...