Word: primed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewish lobby, even though his most cherished project, the Israeli-built Lavi jet fighter, turned out to be a $1.8 billion failure. From 1983 to 1984 Arens served as Defense Minister, a post that did nothing to lessen his commitment to Israeli control over the occupied territories. In 1986 Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir put Arens in charge of Israeli-Arab affairs. According to Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University and Labor supporter, Arens' primary goal "will be to try to dislodge the United States from a dialogue with the P.L.O. If there is someone...
That ship carries Swedish immigrants seeking work in Denmark. Among them are an old man, Lasse (Max von Sydow), and his young son Pelle (Pelle Hvenegaard). The former is too old and the latter is too young to be prime prospects for the labor force in a land that is prejudiced against foreigners. Besides, Lasse is a recent widower who drinks too much. Although he is capable of bluster, it is impotent, one more demonstration that a long, hard life has defeated...
...Boulder. This could be done by launching an International Earthwatch Program, possibly under the aegis of the United Nations, to coordinate multinational research projects and centralize essential data on the state of the world. Such an umbrella program could pool the results of hundreds of existing research efforts. A prime candidate for this program would be the Mission to Planet Earth, recommended by former astronaut Sally Ride, which would use NASA facilities to study the earth from space. In addition to improving knowledge of the earth's ills, an International Earthwatch Program could provide the basis for a widespread awareness...
...world's most financially powerful country, with a heavy responsibility for taking a leading role in bankrolling solutions to the environmental crisis. Japan has long shied away from assuming a major place in international affairs because of its militaristic adventures of the 1930s and '40s, but as Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita has made clear, his country realizes its international duty and is willing to shoulder...
...fruitless search for the killer of Olof Palme has been a source of national anguish for Sweden since the Prime Minister was gunned down in February 1986. Last week hopes rose that the hunt was at an end when the Stockholm District Court arraigned Christer Pettersson, 41, an underworld debt collector with a criminal record that includes manslaughter. Said deputy chief prosecutor Axel Morath: "I think we now have...