Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another mini-crisis arose when the Reagan party arrived in Bali. The Indonesian government, despite quiet but vigorous pressure from the traveling White House, refused to admit two Australian journalists who were covering the presidential visit. The same day, Indonesia summarily expelled a New York Times correspondent, Bangkok-based Barbara Crossette. The reasons in both cases apparently stemmed from the government's sensitivity over foreign-press accounts of Indonesian corruption and human rights violations (see box). Deciding that it was best not to provoke a public showdown, the White House said it would pursue the matter...
They had blasted off from Cape Canaveral last January to the thunderous roar of Challenger's five rocket engines. They returned last week to a respectfully silent ceremony on the Cape's runway where their shuttle mission, if successful, would have landed. The quiet was broken only by two disparate sounds: the somber cadence of tramping boots as an Air Force honor guard gently placed the seven flag-draped coffins aboard a Lockheed C-141 transport plane, and the cheery song of a nearby flock of mockingbirds...
...world has changed in 10 years and so has Bats. No more Mister Quiet Nobility: he snaps bones with a grin and snarls with happy rage as he maims the scum of Gotham. "He never used to make noise," whimpers one doomed wrongdoer. "Welcome to Hell," replies the Caped Crusader...
Besides, there was a growing feeling that the Administration had exhausted every other alternative for taming Gaddafi. Said President Reagan, addressing a meeting of lawyers on Wednesday: "We tried quiet diplomacy. We tried public condemnation. We tried economic sanctions. And, yes, we tried a show of military might (the Sixth Fleet's skirmish in the Gulf of Sidra with Libyan patrol boats and missile batteries last month). But Gaddafi intensified his terrorist war, sending his agents around the world to murder and maim innocents...
...Most of the aging party chiefs will almost certainly be replaced by technocrats in the Gorbachev mold. In Bulgaria, for example, Mining Engineer Chudomir Alexandrov, 49, has just been promoted to the powerful post of central committee secretary, and looms as a potential successor to Zhivkov. In Czechoslovakia a quiet changing of the guard is under way. Says a highly placed official in his 40s: "The older ones are going, and we're taking over." In Hungary the fading power and health of Janos Kadar, 73, are sparking a succession debate at the top level of leadership. Some officials would...