Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite open antagonism at the international peace conference, some delegates expressed hope for progress in upcoming closed-door sessions...
Bush did not take kindly to the charges. In a Rose Garden ceremony Friday, the President inserted into his prepared remarks a pointed rejoinder to his critics. "Anyone who allows political bickering to weaken our progress against pollution," said Bush, "does a tragic disservice to every city in America and to every American who wants and deserves clean...
...breakthrough is one result of a decision by Pope John XXIII in the early 1960s to launch a friendlier policy toward the Communist world. The negotiations that led to last week's recognition of Poland's Communist regime began in 1974. Throughout, Warsaw was far more eager for progress than the church, especially with the election in 1978 of the Polish Pope John Paul II. After Solidarity was outlawed in 1982, the Polish government became desperate for Vatican ties in order to win support among its devoutly Catholic populace and enhance international esteem. John Paul, however, held back because...
...Siachen Glacier problem, and both instructed their negotiators to do so in the most recent round of talks that began last month in Pakistan. When Gandhi and Bhutto met face to face in Islamabad last week, however, they failed to come close to devising a practical solution. Progress has been as thin as the atmosphere in the Karakorams, as the negotiators struggle to settle the central issue: how to divide the disputed mountain area between Pakistan and India...
Will the "revolution from below" accelerate Gorbachev's ambitious plans for reform or tear the country apart? -- A breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet negotiations over the elimination of chemical weapons heralds progress on the thorny verification issue. -- Fighting at breathtaking altitudes, Indians and Pakistanis remain locked in an icy stalemate over a Himalayan boundary...