Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Eastern Europe. Such a move would be consistent with the Soviets' vigorous courtship of Western Europe. As the Soviet Ambassador to West Germany, Yuli Kvitsinsky, put it last week, the Kremlin is eager to replace "the image of the enemy" with "the image of the friend...
...novelty, the superhero this time is discovered not aroil but tranquil, living in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. Sure, he occasionally indulges in the local sport of stick fighting to keep in trim, but mostly he enjoys the silence and the sunsets. When his mentor and only friend, Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna), is captured by a particularly disagreeable Soviet officer while trying to aid the Afghan rebels, Rambo is recalled to primitive business as usual. There are, of course, low cunning, high explosives and much running around without a shirt, punctuated with other familiar gambits: torture scenes; the self...
...pictorial sharpness that mark Boyd's best writing. After reading the description of the Todds' house, the reader feels he could find his way around it in the dark. The chapter on the school is as effective in miniature as any number of public school classics. Todd's closest friend is an acne-ridden chap named Hamish who happens to be a mathematical wizard. Hamish is the goat of some brutish schoolboy pranks, but he is too intoxicated by his own theories to care very much. His presence gives rise to some authorial speculations on the wonder of numbers, their...
Eight years ago, Helms hailed Reagan as the champion of conservatism. Now he feels the President has been duped by advisers. In a letter to a friend, Helms wrote, just before the summit meeting in Washington: "So many undesirable -- and dangerous -- things have happened on his ((Reagan's)) watch -- and I am increasingly fearful about the future." Deeply troubled by the prospect of further arms agreements with the Soviets, he is still trying to bury the INF treaty by tacking killer amendments onto it, as he proved last week. His distrust of the Soviets is boundless and personal. He still...
Independent Counsel James McKay will soon issue his report on Meese's messy finances and unseemly concern for the friends of his friend, indicted Attorney E. Robert Wallach. McKay has already said he will not recommend indictments. But the report may demonstrate ethical insensitivities on Meese's part that will send the capital into another righteous convulsion. Virtually no Cabinet officer in memory has survived such trauma. The damage to Reagan's legacy, to the Republican Party and to Vice President George Bush's troubled presidential bid has already been severe...