Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cigar workers pooled their resources to establish hospitals and mutual- aid societies. They built elaborate ethnic clubs complete with cafes, ballrooms and theaters, some of which attracted the best opera singers and actresses of the day from Spain, Italy and Cuba. "The culture of the cigar worker was evolved to a degree hardly found elsewhere in the proletariat," says County Historian Anthony Pizzo...
Soviet authorities were peeved by Reagan's invitation to the refuseniks. Said Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky: "This is hardly aimed at improving mutual understanding between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R." In Leningrad two dissidents who had been invited to Spaso House were questioned by the KGB until their train left for Moscow...
...might be able to sign a groundbreaking treaty on long-range weapons. But the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva have proved so complex that a treaty anytime soon is considered unlikely. The remaining points of disagreement include establishing verifiable limits on air- and sea-launched cruise missiles, placing mutual restrictions on deployment of mobile missiles and, of course, working out an acceptable link between START and Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative. The START treaty is about 90% complete, but as TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott points out in the following story, the last 10% is so troublesome...
Syria's reluctance to storm the Shi'ite quarter reflected Assad's hope of reaching a political compromise. Despite the growing rivalry with Iran over Lebanon, Syria has no desire to rupture relations. The two countries, in fact, are strategic allies in Iran's 7 1/2-year-old war against their mutual enemy, Iraq. Moreover, the Syrian President knows that his troops could suffer high casualties in a clash with the entrenched Islamic zealots...
...Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir F. Petrovsky said, "This American move is hardly aimed at improving mutual understanding between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R...