Word: milde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither side had expected the Reagan-Schmidt meeting to be especially warm. From the time martial law was declared in Poland last December, Schmidt's criticism of the crackdown has been notably mild. The Administration, meanwhile, made little secret of its annoyance with the Chancellor's cautious attitude. One seasoned European observer predicted before the summit: "Reagan is going to give Schmidt one helluva rap on the knuckles...
There was thus a certain irony when the sanctions announced by Reagan last week were so mild that they amounted to a gnat's bite. Even more than Carter's reprisals, the new sanctions were symbolic, not substantive; Reagan may have conveyed the Administration's moral outrage at the crackdown on freedom in Poland, but his measures will have almost no impact. And by acting without support from Western allies...
...smiles. "My lovely girl Jomaneh." Asked to describe this Jomaneh, he considers with only mild embarrassment. "She is not black and not white. Her eyes are green, I suppose. Her hair is long and blond...
...year's attacks on world leaders came with almost seasonal regularity: before time had diminished the shock of one shooting, another occurred. First, on a mild spring afternoon in Washington, John Hinckley fired his pipsqueak's .22 at Ronald Reagan for reasons meaningful only to himself; then, in the sun of St. Peter's Square, Mehmet Ali Agca, forging a new category of hatefulness, gunned down Pope John Paul II; finally, during an autumn celebration of Egypt's military might, four Islamic fanatics ran from out of the orderly pomp toward President Anwar Sadat, grenades...
...other nations for decades when it is within our power to do something about the conditions, or at least within our power not to support the oppressors, says much for the underdeveloped soul of this country. All we can offer, too little and always too late, are the mild reforms, cough syrup for the patient with double pneumonia. In El Salvador that cough syrup has been "land reform," the supposed distribution of the country's acreage to the peasants who farm it. Rammed down the throats of the Duarte regime by American officials desperate for some improvements to point...