Word: french
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...words. On a highly publicized visit to France, Gorbachev played the familiar Soviet game of trying to divide the Western alliance. He offered to cut side deals for weapons reductions with Britain and France and unilaterally declared reductions on Soviet missiles aimed at Europe. In a speech to French legislators, he called on the Europeans to help halt what he called "the infernal train" of the arms race. Gorbachev's exchanges with French leaders and reporters, heavily played on the nightly news in the U.S. as well as in Europe, were watched closely as a kind of dress rehearsal...
...offer to trade Soviet missiles aimed at Europe for U.S. "Euromissiles" aimed at the Soviet Union, Gorbachev last week offered to negotiate separately with Britain and France. He suggested that the Kremlin might slash the number of weapons targeted at Europe in return for cuts in the British and French nuclear arsenals, which have not been counted in talks between the superpowers. As a sweetener, Gorbachev made a tantalizing but rather fuzzy and perhaps deceptive offer to reduce the number of SS-20s in range of Europe to 243, the same number the Soviets deployed before NATO began installing...
...fair, though, blame for its demise should be spread among several conspirators. Director Ted Kotcheff greedily sought to corner Quebec's French-Canadian market (Joshua was made and expected to flourish in Montreal) by casting Gabrielle Lazure, a French-Canadian starlet, in the lead role of Joshua's whitebread bedmate. This idea backfired, however, because the real Lazure has a strong accent, immediately conspicuous to the Montreal ear. To patch this up, her lines have been dubbed by a monotoned off-screen actress whose voice doesn't at all sound like it comes from Lazure's body. Plainly, a huge...
Even if it did, minors wouldn't have much chance of getting one. The agency promised Harvard two years that it would demand proof of age from all its patrons. Although HSA has been lax, no underage student will be drinking English ale, French champagne, Spanish sangaria and German bier on an international i.d. "Over the summer we had some problems with it because we didn't really know the policy," she says, "But ever since school started, we've been really strict about checking the birth date...
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French: Eleanor DeLorme, Fogg Museum Christian Room...