Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West German public-opinion poll in late October showed that Gorbachev had a significantly higher approval rating than Reagan, 84% to 53%. The same survey found that just 24% of West Germans feared attack from the Soviet Union, compared with 46% five years earlier...
...change of signal came too late to prevent most of the session's 37 speakers from sniping at the Baltic state. While Estonian President Arnold Ruutel watched impassively from the dais, his republic was accused of "creating a hotbed of tensions." In his own presentation, Ruutel repeated demands that Estonians be allowed to decide what form of parliament they wanted. There should be no place in the new laws, said Ruutel, for "formalistic texts that do not take into account the specific differences and demands" of each region...
...million, two-year experiment aimed at improving the townspeople's coronary fitness by teaching them the rudiments of healthy living. The basic rules: throw away the cigarettes, control blood pressure and, perhaps most important, bring down blood-cholesterol levels through diet and exercise programs. Among the first results late this summer: an average 8.3% decline in cholesterol levels...
...ever produced. He began as an abstract painter, making organic, landscape-like images in an idiom related to abstract expressionism; one of his inspirations, though in the end an adversary one, ! was Clyfford Still, a colleague at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the late '40s. Then in 1956 he turned to representational painting, believing that his work could only develop out of a closer contact with the world's body. The grand synthesis of the two came after 1970, with his Ocean Park paintings...
...late summer of 1975, after an all-day negotiating session in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's Jerusalem office, Henry Kissinger approved a midnight addition to an agreement with Israel. The U.S., he pledged, would not "recognize or negotiate with" the Palestine Liberation Organization until the P.L.O. accepted Israel's right to exist. Washington later added another condition, that the P.L.O. renounce terrorism. With the exception of occasional clandestine contacts and the publicized breach that cost Andrew Young his U.N. ambassadorship, the stricture has been U.S. policy ever since...