Word: primed
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Bush, on his first overseas trip as U.S. chief executive, met for lunch with French President Francois Mitterrand. He also met with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita; King Hussein of Jordan; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak; Chaim Herzog, president of Israel and leaders from from Portugal and Thailand...
Takeshita consulted with 12 leaders, including Phillippine President Corazon Aquino; President Richard von Weizsaecker of West Germany and Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's prime minister. He plans to meet with nearly 40 heads of state or government before the weekend is over...
VIDEO: Revisiting the Viet Nam War in prime time...
...surprise, then, is that two weekly shows about Viet Nam have established themselves on the prime-time schedule. To be sure, both of them -- CBS's Tour of Duty and ABC's China Beach -- add plenty of TV fabric softener to the abrasive material. Each fills its sound track with '60s pop songs, as if Viet Nam were just another trip down nostalgia lane, like high school mixers and afternoons at the malt shop. Both have taken a predominantly male experience and leavened it with female characters and soap-opera story lines closer to Dallas than Saigon...
Israeli officials condemned the report as "harsh" and "one-sided," but did not dispute the particulars. Instead they argued that the U.S. had ignored the "constant provocations" by "extremist elements." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir charged that the "media exaggerate" and said that "the behavior of our army is equal to that of any other army in the Western world...