Word: greate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emigrate. On Sunday Baker was to give Shevardnadze a list of 95 more names. At summits throughout the 1970s and much of the '80s, the U.S. regularly presented such lists to the Soviet side, commonly to no avail. This time Bush recognized that the Soviet Union has made "great strides" in resolving individual cases. "Let's set a goal," Bush suggested, "that by next year's summit we won't have another list to give...
CANALETTO, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. In Canaletto one sees Venice, and vice versa, since the artist's luminous, teeming canvases have for two centuries defined the city's great vistas and waterways in the public imagination. Through...
HARLEM NIGHTS. Making his directing debut, Eddie Murphy can't seem to decide whether to go for laughs or melodrama. His movie about the great Harlem nightclubs that flourished in the '30s generates a lot of foul-mouthed noise but only fitful, murky light...
...demise of the F.R.C. and Abu Nidal says a great deal about the changing climate throughout much of the Middle East. One powerful curb on Abu Nidal's activities is the apparent turn to moderation of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is seeking to bring his country out of isolation. Last October Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak bluntly told the Libyan that improved relations with Cairo depend on Gaddafi's abandoning his support of terrorism. So hostile has Gaddafi become to terrorist groups that some reports place Abu Nidal not in a hospital but under house arrest in Tripoli...
...There are many steps along a career path, and every honest politician goes up a learning curve. In the beginning, I felt that Erich Honecker was a person worth emulating because of the way he combined economic achievement with social progress and the great attention he paid to youth affairs...