Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decide who could speak for the P.L.O. and who could not. Moreover, given the fact that Arafat would be watched by U.S. security agents, if only for his own protection, the invocation of a security risk was, as a British diplomat put it, "nonsensical." Many diplomats were no less disturbed by the inconsistency of the U.S. position, noting that Arafat had been granted a visa to address the U.N. in 1974 at a time when his agenda was far more radical...
...that respect, the superpower rivalry remains intense. But it is significant, and encouraging, that the Soviets are relying more on athletes, dancers and diplomats to advance their interests and less on soldiers, KGB infiltrators and guerrillas. Insofar as Gorbachev's mission to New York is meant to persuade the world -- and George Bush -- that the change is real and will continue, he deserves the warm welcome he is likely...
...transverse arm cuts across the gourdlike shape of hips, the thrust of a shin redefining the space around it, the clear slicing of light into dark and profile into void. Diebenkorn's line learned its decisiveness in front of the model. It is clear and energetic, but less meaningfully so, in the earlier landscape abstractions. Some of these are beautiful drawings, but they are made-up images; they do not have the same stubborn pertinence to visual truth that the life drawings do, with their cutting line and their insistence that no part of the paper, marked...
Roughly put, there are two schools of thought. One, articulated by Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, dreams unrealistically of other blacks rising to take Jackson's place. Nunn has no desire to ignore the Democrats' black base. He merely wants to render it less threatening to the white conservatives who have fled to the G.O.P. One way to do that, says Nunn, is to adopt centrist programs that "don't appear to give away the store," a shift that could only succeed with Jackson's concurrence -- as unlikely a prospect as the actual eclipsing of Jackson himself. The Governor...
...Soviet leader will address the United Nations, tour a capitalist pleasure dome, then fly to Castro' s Cuba. -- Here' s how high- tech weapons like the Stealth bomber and SDI could make the world less stable. -- Why Bush lets ; Tower twist slowly in the wind. -- The Democrats wrestle with their Jackson problem...