Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the start, Reagan was full of defiance about the sale of U.S. missiles to Iran. That effort, obviously aimed at winning the release of American hostages in Lebanon, had been an embarrassing violation of his repeated pledges never / to negotiate with terrorist regimes, but Reagan simply denied it. "We...
LONG GONE (HBO). Paul Hemphill's novel about life and love and selling out in Class D baseball was turned into a wryly observant film. William L. Petersen headed a terrific cast, and even the baseball scenes looked authentic.
As a Politburo member, Gorbachev in 1983 headed a Soviet agricultural delegation on a visit to Canada and spent ten days poking around farms, processing plants and supermarkets. At one cattle ranch, he asked to see "some of the workers." The rancher replied that there were none; he ran the...
Less than two weeks after a bloody rampage by soldiers and armed thugs made a farce of the country's attempt at a democratic transition, the people of Haiti were still in shock. Efforts foundered to forge a united opposition to the three-man provisional government headed by Lieut. General...
Honasan's detention, said President Aquino, "should reassure all peace- loving Filipinos that our country is headed for much better times." But judging the rebel will be a challenge for her. Within hours of his detention, posters went up around Manila's Roxas Boulevard demanding AMNESTY FOR GRINGO. Aquino is...