Word: plans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week's end Walesa and Mazomet in Gdansk to plan their next steps. At the same time, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, officially known as the Polish United Workers' Party, convened in Warsaw to discuss Jaruzelski's move. Poland's official news agency, P.A.P., reported that the President will send the Prime Minister's name to the Sejm, or lower house of parliament, early this week for ratification...
...then the public's tolerance for political infighting was wearing thin. At the same time, a government economic-reform plan had taken effect, causing food prices to shoot up dramatically. Solidarity leaders recognized that their movement would suffer if it stood by while the economy spiraled out of control...
Later, the Drug Enforcement Administration people may be joined by U.S. military advisers. Under a plan promoted by William Bennett, director of national drug-control policy, the advisers are to train Peruvian soldiers in the art of "low-intensity" warfare against the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas who control the Upper Huallaga. The insurgents finance their rebellion in part with fees from coca growers and refiners in the valley; U.S. intelligence reports say that lately they have directly gone into the coca-refining business...
...plan was presented to Cabinet officers whose departments would be affected. This second group narrowed down the options. The Cabinet postponed one meeting with Bush after the EPA's Reilly, in a move supported by Boyden Gray, argued for an idealistic plan that would have required half the cars in the nation's 20 largest cities to be powered by alternative fuels by the year 2000. Budget Director Richard Darman and Economic Adviser Michael Boskin worked for weeks to come up with the scaled-down version that eventually went to the President. Bush never saw the EPA's 50% proposal...
...more dramatic moments at the Congress of the People's Deputies occurred in early June, when members of the Lithuanian delegation walked out of the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses in protest against Gorbachev's plan to put the question of a new Committee for Constitutional Supervision to a vote. Considering the importance of constitutional issues for the republics, the Lithuanians wanted more time to discuss the makeup of the committee. Gorbachev compromised and referred the matter to a commission. From the point of view of the pragmatic Estonians, it was a case once again of the Lithuanians "mounting...