Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convey the impression that he was in charge. Meeting with the largest group of world leaders to converge upon Moscow in Soviet history, Andropov behaved with the consummate skill of an experienced statesman, stressing old alliances and signaling new approaches with a judicious handshake, a perfunctory nod or a quiet invitation for future talk...
...Hungarian hooligans" had besieged the diplomatic compound. In the growing tension, the Nagy government feared that the Soviets might use any incident to send in troops. When Király arrived with a security unit to be sure the Soviet embassy was not being besieged, he found everything strangely quiet. He banged on the heavy oak door and was finally received by a tall, handsome man in tailor-made evening clothes. It was Ambassador Andropov. Standing behind him, as if on dress parade, was the entire embassy staff. Andropov brushed aside the protest as a misunderstanding and joked that...
...this relationship was different from other extramarital affairs in which he was a participant. His conduct at Longlea was striking. One [mutual friend], seeing Lyndon and Alice together for the first time, says he could hardly believe his eyes. As Alice sat reading [Edna St. Vincent] Millay in her quiet, throaty voice, he recalls, Johnson sat silent, not saying a word, just drinking in the beautiful woman with the book in her hands. 'I don't believe that Lyndon ever held still for listening to poetry from anyone else,' he says. And although Johnson generally ate, even...
Some 60 years later, Henry Kissinger used "quiet diplomacy" with the Kremlin to increase Jewish emigration. It worked. The number of exit permits rose from 400 in 1968 to nearly 35,000 in 1973. Then Congress once again got into the act. Senator Henry Jackson introduced legislation that in effect made increased Jewish emigration a condition for easier Soviet access to the American market. It backfired. The Kremlin objected to "unacceptable interference in our internal affairs," and emigration dropped off sharply. Later it began to climb again, reaching 51,000 in 1979, but by last year it had plummeted...
...failures annoyed Moscow. The Politburo accepted a less quiet way of getting rid of Amin. This time special Soviet troops were to storm the presidential palace. The day after Christmas 1979, Soviet paratroopers began arriving at the Kabul airport. They strengthened the substantial garrison we had quietly been building up there. The next day an armored column moved out of the airport toward the palace. It consisted of a few hundred Soviet commandos, plus a specially trained assault group of KGB officers-rather like the U.S. Green Berets. They were all in Afghan uniforms, and their vehicles had Afghan markings...