Word: recession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dialogue is more than two monologues." So said Max Kampelman, chief U.S. negotiator, as a new series of nuclear-arms negotiations between Washington and Moscow opened last month in Geneva. But by the time the first round of discussions broke last week for a recess, scheduled to last until May 30, negotiators had failed to get beyond the double-monologue stage, and the words were old ones at that. Kampelman could claim only that the talks so far had "served a useful purpose in helping to bring about increased understanding of one another's positions." Overall, he declared, "we expected...
...Brazilian army will comply exactly with what is prescribed in the constitution." Political leaders of all persuasions pledged their support to Sarney, and the 548-member Congress kept up business as usual. Said Chamber of Deputies President Ulysses Guimaraes: "The republic is not on holiday, nor is it in recess...
...Geneva aboard a military jet early Saturday, and in brief arrival remarks, Kampelman pledged that Washington is ready to "help build a bridge" across the arms chasm. Observers expect the & first meetings in the new round of arms negotiations to last several weeks, followed by several more of recess for home consultations in Washington and Moscow. Few observers dared to speculate much beyond that. Predicted Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt: "Geneva is really going to test the patience of the American people." Reagan sounded the same cautionary note, but then, typically, the Gipper found a way of rephrasing...
...static. "We got this radio system new since the Olympics," he boasts. "Now tourists can call for a taxi, and we come just like in other cities." At the skating rink where Torvill and Dean once carved perfection, the jam-packed crowd of children looks like it is having recess on an oil slick: hardly a child in Sarajevo had owned a pair of skates until the Olympic rinks were built, but they manage to stay upright, so far more on sheer enthusiasm than grace...
...England undergraduates to a Mecca for Anglophilic vacationers--presents unprecedented opportunities for deviant behavior, including the ever-popular boozin,' cruisin,' and woosin.' So it's not all that surprising that placing 10 less-than-mild-mannered 17 year-old girls in this resort haven with minimal supervision during Spring recess would satisfy an Irwin Allen formula for disaster...