Word: ia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope is that education policy makers can come to a consensus over the next several months on what their precise goals should be, so that they can be discussed at the next national Governors Association meeting in the spring said Governor Terry E. Branstad (R-Ia...
...Persian Gulf, Soviet and American arms-control specialists huddled over disputed phrases within bracketed passages of the 100-page draft INF treaty. Even though West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had pretty much removed a major obstacle by agreeing to destroy his country's arsenal of 72 aging Pershing IA missiles, the Soviets wanted the German weapons system and its U.S.-controlled warheads mentioned in what the Americans considered to be a bilateral accord. Both sides indicated that a compromise was reached. Other points of contention concerning on-sight verification measures have proved impossible to resolve. Even so, enough progress...
...OPERA stars in The Mozart Brothers can certainly sing, but their performances are nothing to shout about. For instance, Ia (Agneta Ekmanner) overacts the hysterical woman even beyond the call of role and duty. And as Walter, Etienne Glaser lacks the intelligent aura his part requires. He can say, "In opera we are like silence in music," but it is neither profound nor comic. And the custodians and maids of the opera house flit across the screen just long enough to express their views...
...zero-zero option (meaning simply dismantling all intermediate-range missiles), there has been a long series of negotiations, interrupted for 16 months by a Soviet walkout that began in 1983. When Shevardnadze's team $ arrived in Washington, the toughest remaining question was what to do about 72 Pershing IA shorter-range missiles, owned by West Germany and equipped with U.S. warheads...
...Carlucci was leaving Santa Barbara, Calif., to join Ronald Reagan for a trip to Los Angeles. The caller, Horst Teltschik, had news that would please the President. The West German National Security Adviser told Carlucci that Chancellor Helmut Kohl was about to announce plans to retire 72 aging Pershing IA missiles tipped with American nuclear warheads. At a stroke, one of the chief obstacles to a long-awaited Soviet-American agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces seemed to dissolve, and a Washington summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev again loomed likely for this fall. Despite a flurry of official denials...