Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normally cautious Italian politicians exuded confidence that they possessed the evidence to incriminate, at the very least, the Bulgarian secret service. Although final proof is still lacking, the government's decision to go public with charges that had until then appeared only in the form of rumors and leaks in Italian newspapers has created one of the worst crises in years between a NATO country and a member of the Warsaw Pact. Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo announced that the Italian government had taken measures to reduce sharply Bulgaria's diplomatic presence in Rome and to make it harder...
...only on direct orders from Moscow. The relationship between the KGB and its Bulgarian counterpart, says Stefan Sverdlev, a defector who was a colonel in the Bulgarian secret service until 1971, "is like that between master and slave." True as that may be, it does not constitute any proof of Soviet involvement in the Pope's shooting. Indeed, Bulgarian involvement has not been proved, but Italian authorities plainly feel their case is strong. -By Kenneth W. Banta. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington and Wilton Wynn/Rome, with other bureaus
...much of the evidence points intriguingly toward Bulgarian and potentially Soviet complicity, it is still mostly circumstantial. As a result, the Italian authorities are treading very carefully. "It is a matter of extremely serious facts," Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni said last week, but up to now only "evidence, not proof, has emerged...
...called in as a consultant by Secretary of State George Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire. He regards Reagan's National Security Adviser, William Clark, as "Living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire's remark is living proof that when it comes to malice toward one another, top conservatives are in a class by themselves...
...silver lining" in the GATT meeting two weeks ago, which pitted U.S. negotiators against the European Community over the issue of agriculture subsidies. Although the meeting generally was regarded as at least a setback to world trade, Tumlir saw in the desperate last-minute efforts to prevent an impasse proof that the main participants recognized the grave consequences of total failure. Concluded Tumlir: "If everybody were as pessimistic as the politicians, it would be inconceivable that the Western economies would have held so steadily...