Word: matting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside world epitomized by Andrei Gromyko, the man who made iron pants, stone walls and, of course, nyet so much a part of the vocabulary of diplomacy. Under Gromyko, Soviet foreign policy was much like WrestleMania's archvillain Nikolai Volkoff, whose technique consists of grappling his opponent to the mat and sitting on him. With Gromyko kicked upstairs to the largely ceremonial post of President and Gorbachev's protege Eduard Shevardnadze in charge of the Foreign Ministry, Soviet diplomacy now resembles Ivan Drago, the sleek and powerful Soviet boxer portrayed in the movie Rocky...
...onslaught of illegal aliens fleeing Haiti in rickety boats began. They too claimed that they were seeking political asylum, but many of these penniless, illiterate, unskilled boat people seemed to be in desperate search of work. As the annual influx climbed to 20,000 in 1980, the welcome mat was withdrawn. In June 1981, the first group of illegal aliens was deported. A month later, President Reagan declared that it was time to "establish control over immigration." U.S. officials revived a policy that had been abandoned 27 years earlier: detention of illegal aliens until their petitions for asylum could...
...woman in Virginia whose husband has been missing in Southeast Asia for 16 years. "It got to me," he says. "I'm convinced that the MIAs are alive. Living in Laos. There's been a great avoidance of the issue. The country has been shoving it under the mat and forgetting...
Kaufman always rolls out the welcome mat to freshman. "I didn't feel like a freshman, a newcomer," Austrian says, "Everyone gets along with her--I don't know what we'll do when she's gone...
...page booklet, called "The Community--Guide to Harvard," will "throw down the welcome mat and say that there are a lot of things here that are open to the public," said Director of State Relations Richard J. Doherty...