Word: milde
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According to some accounts, Brezhnev collapsed moments later while still in the Tashkent airport. Other versions tell of a sudden mild stroke during the four-hour flight back to Moscow. The evidence: no film footage or newspaper photographs show his return to Moscow, a curious lapse from the ironclad rules of Kremlin protocol...
Margaret Thatcher's government may deserve mild blame for allowing the impasse to arise, for it had long been aware of the potential for trouble over the Falklands. But faced with the Argentine fait accompli, the British were right to respond immediately, imposing a 200-mile blockade around the islands and demanding that Argentina withdraw its troops below the nations discuss the Falklands future sovereignty...
...current survey demonstrates a troubling loss of popular support for the Reagan presidency. But it also suggests that, like Presidents before him, Reagan has simply passed through the period of mild euphoria that attends the early months of each new Administration. His loss of popular support is far from irreversible. An improved economy and the prospect of a budget more nearly in balance would doubtless lift his domestic ratings. It remains to be seen whether more coherent and consistent explanations of the Administration's foreign policy will influence public attitudes, or whether the statistical evidence of public disagreement will...
Both the rising criticism and the newly mild presidential response were on display last week, when Reagan visited Manhattan to receive a gold medal from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for "courageous leadership in governmental, civic and humanitarian affairs." In contrast to the friendly demonstrations that had greeted the President in Oklahoma only the week before, thousands of outraged protesters outside the New York Hilton Hotel broke into chants of "Money for jobs, not for war, U.S. out of El Salvador!" Ten blocks away, at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University, 300 people, including a few members...
DIED. Raymond ("Buddy") Parker, 68, mild-mannered former Detroit Lions head coach who transformed a woeful, second-division football team into a gridiron juggernaut, winning the national championship in 1952 and 1953; of complications from a ruptured ulcer; in Kaufman, Texas. Parker is credited with the development of the two-minute drill, a predetermined series of plays used near the end of a half or a game...