Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minor Team...
There are signs that Ronald Reagan may one day face political trouble on this issue. In the survey, 42% say they feel Reagan is emphasizing a weapons buildup rather than arms control; 40%, however, believe Reagan is giving priority to disarmament. Political affiliation is a minor factor in the responses: 69% of Democrats favor disarmament over rearmament, as do 61% of Republicans and 67% of independents...
...September the Brigades' "fall offensive" manifesto warned of a strike against a 'high-ranking NATO-U.S. target." On Sept. 15 a West German terrorist unit near Heidelberg ambushed an automobile carrying General Frederick Kroesen commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Kroesen escaped with only minor injuries, but U.S. generals in Europe were advised to safeguard themselves. Little was done. Dozier went on living in his top-floor apartment in downtown Verona-the city of blood feuds and doomed love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet-in a building without a doorman or even a resident...
...consensus here is that the American pullout will be a minor irritant to Gaddafi, who will be able to find ample technicians and workers in Europe and elsewhere to replace the departing Yanks. Old Libya hands are equally certain that Gaddafi will go to extreme lengths to avoid allowing Soviet technicians to come in and help with the oil production. Indeed, Gaddafi seems careful to keep the 3,000 to 5,000 Soviet advisers now in Libya isolated in outlying military posts. The representative of TASS news agency in Tripoli complained openly last week about the Soviet inability to persuade...
...raise welts like nobody else") or When You Are Old and Gray ("Say you'll love and trust me/ For I know you'll disgust me") have retained their piquancy. Surprisingly, it is Lehrer's melodies that show the fewest wrinkles, switching from exuberant marches to minor ballads with a fluency that went unnoticed in his postgraduate period. Gary Pearle and Mary Kyte's galvanic direction aids the songs when it whispers and distorts them when it shouts. Sans extraneous props, the quartet of soloists, MacIntyre Dixon, Joy Franz, Jonathan Hadary and Donald Corren, embody...