Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group, the crew members are 20th century grunts unregenerately projected into the far future. Led by the usual by-the-books lieutenant who is incompetent and by the usual kick-ass sergeant who is supercompetent, their numbers naturally include Hudson (Bill Paxton), a coward, and Hicks (Michael Biehn), a quiet, steadfast type, who turns out to be the bravest...
...three will be forced to continue playing for time. Reagan is scheduled to make a major speech outlining his Administration's policy toward South Africa. In addition, Secretary of State George Shultz will go before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend the Administration's program of relying on quiet diplomacy to nudge Pretoria toward making changes in its apartheid system...
Almost a year has passed since Reagan deftly outflanked a congressional sanctions bill by imposing limited trade restrictions on South Africa. Yet little has happened to indicate that the Administration's trade restraints and quiet diplomacy have met with any success. Botha's halfhearted gestures at reform have been upstaged by the state of emergency, now in its seventh week. The intransigence of his Nationalist government has only hardened antiapartheid sentiment among U.S. politicians and voters. More and more legislators feel that 1) the American public wants sanctions, and 2) economic measures are the only remaining leverage for change...
Graham spoke three times but soft-pedaled his presence in favor of other speakers. He took quiet pride in the spiritual strength of his young colleagues. With schooling of only six years on average, "they aren't educated," he said, "but they know the Bible." And they will ensure that evangelism remains vigorous. Their average age is 31, and many will be toiling in distant places long after Graham is gone...
...deceptively quiet and unassuming start to what looms as a vitally important--and perhaps highly controversial--new era. On his second day in office, Barber Conable, 63, the newly anointed president of the World Bank, strolled onto a dais in Washington last week and inaugurated his term with an apology. He did not know much about his new job, the former Republican Congressman from New York told waiting journalists, and he would therefore require a "period of learning." What Conable already knows, however, is that he will need all the acumen and skills acquired during his 20 years on Capitol...