Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev's Canadian hosts were impressed by his performance at a joint session of the Senate and House of Commons foreign affairs committee. Responding to tough questions about Soviet arms policy, the Middle East and human rights, Gorbachev presented official Soviet positions calmly and succinctly. He responded testily only when he was asked about KGB activities abroad. The notion that the Soviet Union was exporting revolution, said Gorbachev, was "nonsense, fit for the speech of uneducated people...
...Muslim leaders wish to inherit a city more divided than it already is. On Wednesday, after an uneven peace settled over West Beirut, a joint security committee representing Amal, the Druze and the Murabitun issued a set of guidelines. Besides turning West Beirut over to internal police forces, the group outlawed kidnaping, the seizing of homes and the carrying of arms in the area. Muslim militiamen were ordered to return vehicles commandeered during battle and to report to the green line, where sporadic duels with the Phalange and army units still loyal to Gemayel persisted through the week. By Saturday...
...reassessment of the Marines' role began immediately after the Oct. 23 suicide bombing, which killed 241 servicemen. Weinberger, along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged that the Marines be transferred offshore, Secretary of State George Shultz was adamant that they be kept at the airport. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane sided with Shultz but he also asked the Pentagon to come up with redeployment options within Lebanon. The Defense Department, however, kept pressuring for a withdrawal...
...Thursday, after Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, accompanied by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Vessey, told a House committee that only 500 Marines would be moved offshore from Beirut by the end of February, the sense of congressional bewilderment and hostility rose even higher. When Secretary of State George Shultz appeared before the same committee to testify on the Lebanese political situation, Republican Congressman William S. Broomfield of Michigan warned, "We are wondering whether or not our policy [in Lebanon] is dramatically changing." Emerging from private briefings by Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth...
...almost as a unit in helping each other to explore the world outside. Kury highlights the strength of the women's friendship by subtly contrasting it to the friendship that develops between Costa and Michel. While Michel and Costa vie for the attention of each others' wives on a joint family outing, Michel tells Madeline. "You only look at Lena, never at me." And while each husband tries to trick the other into phony business deals, Lena and Madeline remain loyal friends. Kury, however, does not idealize the relationship between Lena and Madeline. Rather, she depicts their competitiveness and occasional...