Word: peacenik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peacenik William Sloane Coffin suggests that now is the time to end the arms race and start dismantling NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
Gorbachev seems to have come up against a similar problem from his own good soldiers. He handpicked Yazov in May 1987, after a quixotic West German peacenik landed in Red Square in a single-engine Cessna (in effect, a piloted cruise missile). That event gave Gorbachev an excuse to purge the Defense Ministry. Ever since the Reykjavik summit in October 1986, Akhromeyev has worn his civvies and served as chairman of the Soviets' arms-control "working group," impressing the American team. Carlucci and Yazov held their own unprecedented meeting in Bern on March 16 and 17, and Akhromeyev will visit...
...beyond satisfying the political needs of the moment, the tete a tete was interesting only in the degree to which it obfuscated the United State's slaggardly approach-fully shared by the Soviets-toward making do with its adversary. Reagan mouthed all the right words in his peacenik-comelately rounting before the U.N. General Assembly, but to those who have been watching with some discrination the foreign policy deeds of his Administration, they rang hollow. A brief capsule of this history is highly instructive...
...heart attack; in Arlington, Va. Appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1960, he regularly cut short questioning he found irrelevant, put questions himself, and pushed both sides with his familiar exhortation "Get on with it!" He rendered important school desegregation decisions; he consistently opposed 1960s peacenik protesters, saying, "I never let a deserter try the Viet Nam War"; and he ruled in 1978 that ex-CIA Agent Frank Snepp had violated a contractual pledge of secrecy by publishing a critical account of the 1975 fall of Saigon, a ruling upheld by the Supreme Court...
...years. In addition, I have held academic appointments at Northeastern University, Union College, Stephens College and Boston University. I have been consultant to mental health and intergroup relations programs from here to Oklahoma, and from Detroit to Tallahassee. I am co-director of Reconciliation Enterprises, a small group of peacenik zealots who have sponsored constructive dialogues over the last eight or nine years among Arabs and Israelis, Blacks and Whites as well as Native Americans and foreigners...