Word: misreadings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same, says Aloian, to be certain Harvard had not misread Walesa's words, he passed along a copy of Beranczak's translation of the union chief's reply to Adam Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and head of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Ulam pronounced it accurate--"It seemed fairly faithful to me," he remembers...
Khrushchev evidently decided Kennedy could be pushed around, and so he ordered nuclear missiles placed in Cuba. Khrushchev badly misread Kennedy. Eighteen years later Brezhnev measured Jimmy Carter during the Vienna summit of 1979; he subsequently decided that the Soviets could invade Afghanistan without serious consequences...
...time were in unanimous agreement that any other course would have had explosive and destructive effects on the security of the U.S. and its allies. If made public in the context of the Soviet proposal to make a "deal," the unilateral decision reached by the President would have been misread as an unwilling concession granted in fear at the expense of an ally. It seemed better to tell the Soviets the real position in private, and in a way that would prevent any such misunderstanding. Robert Kennedy made it plain to Ambassador Dobrynin that any attempt to treat the President...
...Both anchors made frequent if trivial mistakes: once Steve Bell even announced the time wrong. The show's other anchor, Kathleen Sullivan, who was wooed, perhaps not coincidentally, from a highly visible role at Cable News Network, was appealingly energetic, but often seemed ill at ease. She mumbled, misread, and even looked abruptly away when she garbled words. One notable malapropism: "Police spokesmen are involving any comment." More seriously, the show hyped the as yet unsubstantiated charges of sexual misconduct between members of Congress and Capitol Hill pages, and used an artist's rendering of a compromising scene...
...Thatcher's triumphal moment is unlikely to last. Two parliamentary investigations have been ordered into the conduct of the Falklands war. The first will examine the handling of earlier negotiations with Argentina for the islands. Many Labor M.P.s have been claiming that the Thatcher government misread Argentina's intention to invade. The other investigation will focus on the British Defense Ministry's censorship of information from the South Atlantic. Other questions are bound to arise, including Britain's decision to prune its conventional navy in favor of a strategic, submarine-based nuclear strike force...