Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders to begin cease-fire talks with the newly elected Salvadoran President, Jose Napoleon Duarte. But one of the rebel delegates, Jose Mario Lopez, told reporters: "We can't be the only ones to lay down arms to start negotiations." Jackson agreed that any cease-fire must be "mutual so that negotiations can go on in an orderly process free of intimidation or gunfire...
Once the two adversaries had sequestered themselves in the study, shirtsleeves rolled up and notes at their sides, the mutual accusations began, each man coldly recalling stinging statements made by the other during the campaign. But after two touchy minutes, the ice was broken: both admitted that much of the rhetoric had been ill advised and, while offering no direct apologies, agreed that they were sorry that things had got out of hand. They then put the final touches on an accord that, by removing the threat of a Hart challenge to the credentials of Mondale delegates, effectively ended their...
...would like to see Israel acting economically as a university and socially as a kibbutz. Since we are such a small country, everything must be based on science and technology. We have the potential to introduce human cooperation and mutual aid-to create again a spirit of pioneering...
...main group in the House, led by Aspin and Gore, favored de-MlRVing and Midgetman. Another group in the Senate, led by a Republican, William Cohen of Maine, and a Democrat, Sam Nunn of Georgia, advocated a so-called guaranteed mutual build-down, whereby each side would be required to retire more weapons than it deployed in its arsenal. The build-down was seen by its advocates as a moderate alternative to the freeze that was compatible with the Administration's stated goals of modernization in its defense program (i.e., developing new weapons like the MX) and dramatic reductions...
...Screenwriter Vincent Patrick, adapting his own novel. He has a fine, unforced understanding of how clan loyalties work, a bemused acceptance of corruption as a natural part of New York City's municipal style, and a sharp sense of how Irish and Italian ethics and ethnics mesh to mutual advantage and grind to mutual exasperation. In Rourke, with his alert inwardness, and Roberts, with his burbling extraversion (as opposed to his work in Star 80 as it is possible to be), he has a dream team, actors capable of suggesting unwritten levels of intimacy in the film...