Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). Friedman won two Pulitzer Prizes during the 1980s while covering the Middle East for the New York Times. Now based in Washington, he looks back on the harsh realities of a region drenched in myths and bloodshed...
...dogs. Peary's diary, withheld from historians after his death until Herbert analyzed it, proves that he fell short by as much as 30 to 60 miles. So when this strong and single-minded man returned home from his final trip to the far north, a region he had come to feel he owned, his sense of proprietorship required him to claim he had reached the pole. He lied, heroically...
...minister in charge of coal mines, had earlier told the workers that they were not prepared for the independence they were demanding. But after negotiating with local strike leaders into the early hours of the morning, the Moscow delegation finally agreed to sign a protocol promising that the region's mines could decide on their production levels and investments. The state would raise miners' pay for night shifts by $50 a month, a 40% increase, improve food supplies and spend more of the mines' profits on local housing. Slyunkov also promised to increase supplies of food and soap...
...meeting last Tuesday with party officials, Gorbachev said the party also needs a "flow of fresh blood, and...to be renewed at the level of the work place, the locality, the city, the region, the republic, the central committee, and the Politburo...
...more need for peace. Even the downside is welcomed. Given the undisputed hardening of opinion -- especially among those Israelis and Palestinians who have reached their majority since Israel took the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 -- failing to resolve the matter peacefully now will almost inevitably lead to another region-wide Arab-Israeli war. "Which we would win," says an aide to Ariel Sharon confidently. "And then we will be that much closer to the transfer" -- Israeli-speak for kicking the Palestinians out of the territories once...