Word: greats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later I felt very strongly about decisions that had very little to do with reality. I expressed this view on repeated occasions in the mid-'80s, when great changes were taking place in socialist societies, primarily in the Soviet Union. In the leadership there was a majority, influenced by Honecker, Mittag and others, that opposed these international changes. You can imagine that as a man less than 50 at that time, faced with a General Secretary over 70, my views were not always accepted...
...Times have changed. Today responsibility for the world is borne by all countries, great and small. There are aspects of the Yalta agreement that must remain intact. It is difficult to look into the future, but I do think Malta is a meeting of historic significance...
...family-planning specialist by training, a graphologist by avocation. Without taking her eyes off Wattleton's handwriting, she began to speak. You're idealistic and self-controlled, she told Wattleton. You're a bit possessive. You can keep a secret. Wattleton's face was a mask. You dwell a great deal on the past, Arredondo continued. You are easily wounded, but you hide it well. When Arredondo finished, Wattleton was silent. Well, how much of it was true? Wattleton paused, and then said, very softly, "All of it." Then she smiled. "Does it say I'm late?" Wattleton asked...
...proposal to abolish the military. The results shocked the country's political and military establishment. Few expected the measure to garner more than 25% of the tally. President Jean- Pascal Delamuraz once called the initiative "an idiocy as big as the Matterhorn." Swiss voters, though, viewed the issue with great seriousness: 68.6% of them turned out, more than have shown up for any other of the < country's incessant referendums in the past 15 years. The army will remain, but it has been sharply shaken and irrevocably affected...
...Heinz Hasler, who will take command of the military on Jan. 1, averred that the army had much to do: "Everything must be done to restore the people's conviction that military defense is needed" -- a clear acknowledgment that even the leadership of a citizens' army cannot long ignore great changes in the citizenry...