Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ghosts of war linger everywhere. On a river at Ben Tre, children fish from the bow of a half-submerged U.S. patrol boat; the deck gun is shrouded in laundry. Near the northern port of Da Nang, where a scattering of Soviet and Polish tourists sunbathe on quiet beaches, hillsides are dotted with the carcasses of U.S. armor. At Camp Holloway, in the Central Highlands, youngsters play outside the old U.S. barracks, while visitors can still make out THE SWAMP scrawled across the wall of the club in which helicopter pilots used to unwind. And outside the shattered Citadel...
Three days later, at a meeting of Warsaw Pact leaders in the Polish capital, Gorbachev warned that continued U.S. foot dragging on placing Star Wars technology on the bargaining table could result in a new Soviet buildup. "If preparations for SDI continue," said the Soviet leader, "we will have no other choice than to undertake countermoves including, of course, the strengthening and upgrading of nuclear arms." He also went public with an arms-reduction offer that had been privately broached by Soviet negotiators --and rejected by American ones--in Geneva. He said the Soviet Union would be ready to slash...
...campaign is designed to explain Unification doctrine, polish the sect's tarnished image and achieve mainstream respectability. In the past year, for example, 7,000 clergy have been courted at all-expenses-paid Unification seminars in the Caribbean, Europe and Asia, as well as at U.S. sites. Moon- related scientific conferences have tried to win prestige by signing up Nobel scholars, while a Unification-backed anti-Communist agency seeks allies among fundamentalists. Capitalizing on its ownership of the daily Washington Times and New York Tribune, the Moon movement has run junkets for hundreds of journalists to soften media hostility...
...city's veterans services offices and several local veterans groups--including the Polish American Veterans and Jewish Veterans leagues--organized the annual celebration. While the weather surely had a lot to do with Monday's big turnout, Paul J. Ryan director of veteran services for the city, offered another explanation: "I think there's been a rebirth of patriotism in the past few years...
...being unable to best ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today retook the morning ratings lead for two weeks. Last week should turn out to be the third in a row, since Today pulled off something of a programming miracle. Responding to the network's shrewdly written (in Polish) request, Pope John Paul II gave NBC extraordinary, although not unprecedented, access to the Vatican as part of the show's week of live broadcasts from Rome. The Pope extended a personal welcome to the NBC crew at his general audience and expressed his hope that the media exposure...