Word: notting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jerusalem has been in the middle of a game of hot potato ever since. The main obstacle: how to assemble a Palestinian delegation that gives Arafat a voice but allows Israel to pretend that the P.L.O. is not party to negotiations. So far, no formula has been found. While the...
Reassuringly, the more dangerous and uncertain the game becomes on The Blue X Conspiracy, the more cautious the players turn on both sides. When word reaches the Soviets that the Afghan mujahedin rebels, backed by the U.S., have attacked the key Afghan air base at Bagram with chemical weapons, Georgi...
The Blue X Conspiracy contains reminders of how the current climate of U.S.-Soviet relations affects decision making, whether in a mock crisis or a real one. Such a game would probably not have been played in the depths of the cold war, but if it had, there would probably...
The show also illustrates the way leaders must expect the unexpected and not always believe what they hear. The Soviet side is distressed as Washington gets mired in the constitutional procedures for authorizing the next in line -- the Speaker of the House -- to act as President. Later, the American team...
Deputy Energy Secretary Henson Moore claims that the revised schedule is necessary to satisfy scientific and environmental concerns. "This is in fact a realistic reappraisal rather than a delay," he says. But to critics, it is yet another sign of bureaucratic bungling. Two years and $500 million into the Yucca...