Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black-market rate for dollars dipped below the official exchange rate for the first time since the austral plan was implemented by former President Raul Alfonsin in 1985, demonstrating credibility in the currency's new valuation. Investors and bankers were favorably impressed by the seriousness of the Peronist leader's austerity plan, which prompted the Buenos Aires stock exchange to rise 6.5% in a single day and sent monthly interest rates down 44 points...
...rather paltry, less than Lyndon Johnson might have dropped on some backwater congressional district during a quickie campaign stop. The $115 million offered to Poland, for example, would barely dent a decimal point in that nation's $39 billion foreign debt. Some of his European hosts were disappointed. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa pressed the case for $10 billion in assistance, and Communist Party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski asked for at least $3 billion in aid and a major rescheduling of Poland's debt. Hungarian banker and businessman Sandor Demjan, in a gesture that was at once magnanimous and a bit slighting...
Next day, standing below the soaring Workers Monument in Gdansk, the President wrapped his arm around Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and held the portly electrician next to him. At the Westerplatte Memorial, which marks the site of the first gunfire of World War II, Bush, draped in a large American flag by an exuberant Pole, reached into the crowd, picked up a small boy and hugged him as if he were one of his own eleven grandchildren...
...Gdansk the next day, Bush was at the luncheon table again, this one in the 100-year-old home of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Women from the neighborhood had prepared an avalanche of Polish dishes, ranging from smoked eel to schnitzel. Bush looked at the groaning board and commented, "My mother taught me to eat what's before you. In this house I would weigh 300 lbs." Framed pictures of Christ were in almost every room; crucifixes hung over most of the doors. By Polish standards the house was a mansion; Walesa noted that his work with Solidarity had some...
Arguing that the basic proposal was still intact, Shamir called Labor's impending withdrawal "misguided." Labor leader Shimon Peres countered that "there is no reason to remain in the government," but invited Shamir to "retract" the appended conditions, which include barring East Jerusalem's 140,000 Palestinian residents from participating in the elections. The Bush Administration signaled its irritation by reviving talk of an international peace conference, an option repellent to Shamir. In a New York Times interview, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the Likud stipulations a "deadly blow," but he did not torpedo the plan...