Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their leader's delicate condition was more than a temporary crisis. In the short run, that should not pose a problem. Constitutionally, executive authority is in the hands of Vice President Sarney, the former chairman of the military-backed Democratic Social Party, which ceded power to Neves following his Jan. 15 election by Brazil's 686- member electoral college. Nor was there much concern that the military would grow restless: Army Minister Leonidas Pires Gon(pi202)alves told the press that "the Brazilian army will comply exactly with what is prescribed in the constitution." Political leaders of all persuasions pledged...
...tend to be launched with fanfare. The Monroe Doctrine was instantly recognized, on both sides of the Atlantic, as a historic declaration; the Truman Doctrine was unveiled in a dramatic address to a joint session of Congress; and when President Carter announced a new aggressive Persian Gulf policy on Jan. 23, 1980, by the next morning the New York Times had dubbed it "the Carter Doctrine." President Reagan saw fit to bury his doctrine in his 1985 State of the Union address beneath the balanced budget amendment, school prayer and the line-item veto. That he decided to make...
Just over a month later, on the night of Jan. 28, 45 pop stars got together in a Los Angeles studio to record a simple anthem of compassion. The song, We Are the World, written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, featured, besides the vocal talents of Belafonte and its composers, the arranging prowess of Quincy Jones and the raised voices of some of the brightest names in the music business. Ray Charles. Bruce Springsteen. Willie Nelson. Cyndi Lauper. Billy Joel. Tina Turner. Kenny Rogers. Kim Carnes. Paul Simon. Diana Ross. Huey Lewis. Dionne Warwick. Bob Dylan. And keep counting...
When Secretary of State George Shultz met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva on Jan. 7 and 8 to set the ground rules for next week's negotiations, Gromyko repeatedly objected to the description of space weapons as defensive. The term, he said, was meant to "camouflage" the real purpose, which was actually highly offensive in every sense of the word...
Since December, seven Americans, including the DEA agent, have disappeared. Benjamin and Patricia Mascarenas of Ely, Nev., and Dennis and Rose Carlson, of Redding, Calif., all Jehovah's Witnesses, are believed to have been abducted while distributing evangelical literature. On the night of Jan. 30, John Walker and Alberto Radelat failed to return to Walker's Guadalajara apartment after they went out for a drink...