Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just such a moment. They agreed that Adamec would publicly call for reform while Strougal used his influence within the Central Committee to oust Jakes and other hard-liners in the Politburo. ) Strougal rallied a core group of 20 moderates within the Central Committee to their cause. "In the main hall, everything looked calm," says a participant. "Behind doors all around it, people were negotiating like crazy, shouting and threatening...
This time Kohl got the better of it. His speech was interrupted with applause by supporters and opponents, and his party's main rival, the Social Democratic Party, at first had no choice but to endorse the speech. Later in the week, though, when the Bundestag formally approved the plan, the SPD began feeling its politics again and abstained from the voting. Kohl also seized the high ground from the far-right Republican Party, which has issued absurd calls for complete German reunification to 1937's borders, which now include parts of Poland. Kohl reassured Germans across much...
Jerusalem has been in the middle of a game of hot potato ever since. The main obstacle: how to assemble a Palestinian delegation that gives Arafat a voice but allows Israel to pretend that the P.L.O. is not party to negotiations. So far, no formula has been found. While the U.S. is growing impatient with Shamir's delaying tactics, President Bush appears unwilling to expend his political capital by pressuring Shamir. Privately, many U.S. officials have concluded that Shamir is incapable of compromise...
...natural reserve is in contrast to the effusiveness of the dozens of newspaper and magazine articles about her. Publicity is a principal part of her brief; Wattleton's main job as president of Planned Parenthood is to be the organization's spokeswoman. Thus promoting herself is advancing Planned Parenthood. Even when she is being interviewed by Vogue or Ms., she rarely neglects to mention Planned Parenthood's 177 affiliates and 850 clinics in 46 states, which served 3.8 million people last year, offering everything from infertility counseling to prenatal care. But it is abortion that is at the very...
...being touted for preservation, and some have already been set aside as historic landmarks by local and state agencies. "Many of the things that were taken for granted in the 19th century -- factories, mills, neighborhoods -- people now want to save," says Chester H. Liebs, historian and author of Main Street to Miracle Mile. "The same thing is going to happen to this century...