Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raiders. They have posted troops at the most likely target clinics and kept others mobile in cars, with walkie-talkies to summon them as soon as the protest site becomes apparent from the route of the Operation Rescue caravan. An elaborate game of feints and reciprocal infiltration is going forward. Before this morning's caravan can even get started, the pro- choice side seems to have checkmated the game with a single move: both ends of the street off the parking lot have been blocked at the last minute with a line of pro-choice cars...
...first. But the West German government is under enormous pressure to persuade the Americans to agree to start bargaining immediately for "equal but lower" levels of short-range nuclear weapons. Some leading West Germans are even pushing for eventual elimination of all short-range nuclear arms in NATO's forward zones, something the U.S. categorically rejects on the ground that without them, conflicts might break out more easily. The Bonn government is so eager to overcome U.S. opposition to these talks that it has dispatched Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg to Washington to plead Germany's cause. The U.S. would rather...
...cases Wright's staff members pointed out that the Speaker was near his limit on honorariums and suggested that organizations buy books instead of paying him directly. Wright refused to answer any questions about the book last week; if he or Oldaker has a plausible explanation, neither has come forward with...
...effect, not surprisingly, is that of a stage set. "I think the Spelling house is a joke," Cozen adds. "It's not a French manor. This is America in 1989. Someone like Aaron Spelling should be helping humanity by having people design things that will move the culture forward...
...Philadelphia forward Charles Barkley--the Round Mound of Rebound, the Guru of the Glass--and tonight in the first round of the NBA playoffs, Lord Charles will plant his large frame under the basket, dominate the paint and lead the 76ers to victory over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden...