Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Governor Mario Cuomo, his wife Matilda, two of their children and the family dog were upstairs in the executive mansion in Albany last week when a neighbor, Julian Quarles, 25, paid them an unexpected visit. Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., Quarles climbed a 7-ft.-high fence outside the house, broke a window to unlock the front door, and walked in, unnoticed by the two guards stationed outside. He took a video recorder, a silver punch bowl, two candlesticks, a tray, a coffee urn and two platters...
...Deng's drive for "four modernizations" of his country, first announced in 1971, the military ranked only fourth-after agriculture, industry, and science and technology. In terms of equipment, training and logistic support, according to Western analysts, China still lags at least a generation behind its powerful neighbor, the Soviet Union. Thus Deng's decision to bestow public recognition on the armed forces, as an estimated 400 million Chinese watched the televised proceedings, was an impressive, morale-boosting gesture...
...announcement flashed over Jordanian television at 8 p.m. Two hours later, a special bulletin appeared on Egyptian television. In both countries, the news was greeted with mild applause and much surprise. After a five-year rift, Jordan was restoring full diplomatic ties with its neighbor to the west. One of the 17 Arab nations that have severed relations with Egypt since the late President Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, Jordan now becomes the first country to rescind that gesture of disapproval. Although Egypt and Jordan have had a growing number of contacts over the past...
...with its violent and frequent pendulum swings from left to right. Clearly, the Communist nation has much to gain from protecting its capitalist jewel: the per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong is 18 times that of China, and already the 400-sq.-mile colony supplies its colossal neighbor with up to 40% of its entire foreign-exchange earnings. Even those practical considerations, however, could be swept aside during a leftist backlash. In that event, noted a veteran China hand in the British Foreign Office, "the rational argument of the need for hard currency would go out the window...
...contemporary setting and realistic style of The Diary of a Good Neighbor-the memoir of a successful middle-aged magazine editor who befriends a lonely old woman-seem to have fooled nearly everyone. The manuscript was first sent incognito to two of Lessing's British publishers. Both rejected it without recognizing Lessing's touch. A third, remarking that the style bore a resemblance to Lessing's, agreed to publish the novel in Britain and was let in on the secret. But only Robert Gottlieb, editor in chief of Knopf and a close friend of Lessing...