Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first night in New York City. During lunch later that day with Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Gorbachev mentioned the earthquake briefly, noting that the damage was thought to be "very serious in some places." Some time after that, news of the growing toll reached him. Just after midnight, a visibly shaken Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze summoned the press to the Soviet U.N. mission on Manhattan's East 67th Street and announced that Gorbachev would go home later that day to direct the recovery effort...
...consolation game has never offered much consolation to Harvard. If the team wanted to skate in front of empty seats, it could call a midnight practice at Bright Center...
...taking place, partly in response to competition from cable, where explicit material is commonplace. "The networks have seen their share of the audience erode, and I think there is a tacit approval to go a little further," says Robert Singer, an executive producer of the new NBC series Midnight Caller. Network viewers today can see a sliver more nudity than they once could (though only from the rear), hear a few more dirty words (though usually later in the evening), and see bullets actually hitting bodies -- all scenes that once were forbidden...
...still has a terrible attitude toward sex." With regard to political controversy too, the networks seem as timid as ever. Shootdown, the recent NBC movie about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, was altered at network insistence to soften its charges of a U.S. Government cover-up. Midnight Caller, already the target of protests from homosexual groups over a segment on AIDS airing next week, was forced to tone down the anti-capital punishment message in another upcoming episode. The network menu may be getting spicier, but bland still seems to be the flavor of choice...
...late summer of 1975, after an all-day negotiating session in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's Jerusalem office, Henry Kissinger approved a midnight addition to an agreement with Israel. The U.S., he pledged, would not "recognize or negotiate with" the Palestine Liberation Organization until the P.L.O. accepted Israel's right to exist. Washington later added another condition, that the P.L.O. renounce terrorism. With the exception of occasional clandestine contacts and the publicized breach that cost Andrew Young his U.N. ambassadorship, the stricture has been U.S. policy ever since...