Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader at or near the peak of his influence, but perils surround him. As he heads into what may be the most challenging weeks of his presidency, Ronald Reagan must do battle over deficits, trade, taxes, farm aid and the positions he will take in Geneva at the November summit with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev...
...tended the last barbecues and soothed the final sunburns of the summer, their leader retired to California for a few weeks of rest and recuperation. Television projected the familiar--if not blurry--image of a vigorous Reagan reposing at his mountaintop ranch. Patient camera crews perched on a neighboring peak even captured the man on horseback, defying the cancer removed from his bowel a month earlier...
...quite soft. Sometimes Gorbachev talks for several minutes in a near whisper, low and melodious. Then, without warning, his voice can cut across the room. It is not angry or bullying, just stronger than any other sound in the room. Occasionally the eyes, the hands and the voice reach peak power at the same time, and then it is clear why this man is General Secretary...
...Yosemite National Park is not the usual place to track celebrities. But campers in the glacier-carved valley found themselves asking for autographs when Robert Redford showed up along with Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel for the formal dedication of Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,900-ft. peak named for the great wilderness photographer. Redford, 48, talked about his concern for protecting natural areas and the impression Yosemite made on him when he first saw it at age ten. "I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security," he declared. "Defense of our resources...
...summit this November, the battle will peak. Says a top White House aide: "It may be that the summit will be 'won' or 'lost' on the p.r. front." Already, U.S. and Soviet advance teams have scouted Geneva for the best camera angles...