Word: months
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ortega had been known to blow advantages in the past. Remember his spectacularly mistimed trip to Moscow only days after Congress voted to cut off aid to the contras in 1985? Last week he did it again. Ortega announced the cancellation of a 19-month-old cease-fire with the rebels and thereby raised the possibility that the elections, scheduled for February, might be scuttled. With that one action he managed to put Nicaragua back on the U.S. agenda, outrage his Central American neighbors and renew the prospect of war in his worn-out nation...
...American firm. The centerpiece of Hewlett-Packard's quality program, started in 1979, is a closer relationship with its suppliers. Treating them as partners rather than free-lance sources, the company involves partsmakers in the initial design phase of its new products and gives the suppliers six-month forecasts of its needs so that the smaller companies can plan their own production. As a result, Hewlett-Packard reached its goal of increasing quality tenfold in just ten years. Says Chairman John Young: "If I'd asked for 30%, nothing would have happened...
...Richard Sipe, who, after 25 years of interviewing 1,000 priests, concluded that 20% of the nation's Catholic clergy are gay, half of those sexually active. Sipe also estimates that 4% of priests are sexually attracted to adolescents and an additional 2% to children under 13. Responding last month, David Brinkmoeller, director of the U.S. bishops' secretariat on priestly life, questioned the validity of the figures...
There is no set agenda for next month's get-together aboard U.S. and Soviet warships in the Mediterranean, but much is at stake, including Eastern Europe's future. -- Emigrants from California have Seattle shouting, "Have a nice day -- somewhere else...
...timely. Two years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev established a joint Soviet-Polish commission whose mandate included the reopening of the Katyn case. Since then, the Soviets have delayed a formal verdict. But officials, eager to clear the air before Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's arrival in Moscow later this month, want to hasten a judgment. Applauding Gorbachev for making a "historic break with Stalinism," Brzezinski offered a face-saving way out. "Many Soviet people were also victims of Stalinism," he said. "So the acknowledgment of these crimes should lead to reconciliation, not to hatred...