Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relations with the U.S. We think we should be friends and want to do everything we can for friendship. Of course, we cannot jettison our basic policies. They are not thought up, they are thought out-considered. The tendency in the U.S. is to assume that a person is either 100% with you or not with you. This is not realistic. You can be with a person on some issues and not on others. My goal is to try to show the reality of India, that it is a country with enormous problems but trying to solve them, that...
...relations with the Soviet Union. I do not think there has been any cooling of relations. Our policy has always been based on certain principles and what we consider our national interest. So it cannot swing from side to side. We believe that we should have friendship with all countries and that friendship with one country or group of countries should not come in the way of friendship with all the others. On the subject of Afghanistan, we have made our stand very clear. We are opposed to a foreign presence, whether in the shape of troops or any other...
...relations with Pakistan. I do not know how close they want to get. We have been anxious for friendship, not for any idealistic reason, but because it is a necessity for us. We want our neighbors to be stable and strong. Nothing is so dangerous as a weak neighbor. You just do not know what they will do. Throughout the years, we have taken all the initiatives. My father [Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister] offered a no-war pact in 1949, and in different forms the offer has been repeated. Then we signed the Simla Agreement...
...relationship between the boy, Elliott (Henry Thomas), and his extraterrestrial friend is so real that we almost forget that E.T. is a mechanical creature. Spielberg draws our attention away from the technological wizardry and toward the human side of the story, toward the very simple themes of love and friendship...
...April 30. The sanctions had blocked U.S. Government loans and credit guarantees for exports to Argentina, but had little impact on the Argentine economy. Said Reagan: "It is important now for all parties involved in the recent conflict to put the past behind us and to work for friendship and cooperation...