Word: list
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers strike next door, ransacking the home of Rehab Abu Asab, 50. One of her four children is among the hundreds of Palestinians on the army's wanted list. "They've done this 14 times," she mutters. "Only God can stop them...
...Bush, a man most comfortable with the prudent and predictable, the desire to give ballast to the wildly careening events of recent weeks may have been one reason he arrived in Malta with a long list of concrete proposals. Bush also seemed determined to prove to public opinion in the U.S. and Europe that the American President was just as committed to building the peace as his popular Soviet counterpart...
...Reykjavik summit in 1986, Gorbachev opened the encounter with a list of sweeping arms proposals that kept Ronald Reagan off balance for the rest of their time together. This time it was Bush who produced the printed sheet of specifics almost as soon as he and Gorbachev sat down in the book-lined cardroom of the Soviet cruise liner Maxim Gorky. Putting before him 112 typed pages of items, the President started out nervously, his voice tight. Gorbachev, sitting across from him, listened intently. When Bush finished speaking, nearly one hour later, he had set out what one White House...
...increased exchange of college students and a joint endorsement of the idea of holding the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Echoing a long-standing U.S. complaint about the Soviets, he urged them to publish information on their military-force structure, budget and weapons production. He handed Gorbachev a list of possibilities for cooperation between the two nations, including advice on such classically capitalist institutions as banking systems and a stock market. "We're happy to pursue any of these issues with you," Bush said, beaming...
Bush also gave Gorbachev a list of about 20 names of Soviet citizens who were seeking to emigrate. On Sunday Baker was to give Shevardnadze a list of 95 more names. At summits throughout the 1970s and much of the '80s, the U.S. regularly presented such lists to the Soviet side, commonly to no avail. This time Bush recognized that the Soviet Union has made "great strides" in resolving individual cases. "Let's set a goal," Bush suggested, "that by next year's summit we won't have another list to give...