Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the signing, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz gave Perez de Cuellar a statement saying that Washington reserves the right to "provide military assistance to parties in Afghanistan." It added that "should the Soviet Union exercise restraint in providing military assistance to parties in Afghanistan, the U.S. similarly will exercise restraint." Since Moscow seems determined to support its Afghan ally at least for a while, the decision all but guaranteed continued warfare in a struggle that has taken more than a million lives since the Soviet invasion of December...
...into a circular pool. There is a pavilion for watching sunrises at the east end, another for staring at sunsets in the west. The study is a stepped pyramid of volcanic stone, topped with a skylight. Yet for all the house's risky paradox -- B-movie imagery conceived with restraint and accomplished with first-rate production values -- it succeeds breathtakingly. Shirley MacLaine would be happy here, but so, maybe, would Mies van der Rohe...
...South gave the Republicans George Bush, and now the GOP has five months to find someone willing to run with him. At this early stage, Time, in a fit of self-restraint, threw out half a dozen possibilities in a mini-story this week...
Gorbachev, meanwhile, was striving for a peaceful solution. After sending four top-level troubleshooters to the region and issuing a public plea for restraint, the Soviet leader met secretly in the Kremlin with two well-known Armenian writers, Zori Balayan and Silva Kaputikyan. Gorbachev promised them that he would personally study the Armenian demands. As soon as that message was relayed to Yerevan, the protest leaders agreed to suspend the demonstrations for one month. In Nagorno-Karabakh, however, at least two Azerbaijani youths were killed in clashes with Armenians...
Back from the abyss, Bush is again the front runner. -- After New Hampshire, the fractious Democrats may be heading for a bartered nomination. -- He is intelligent and an able manager, but can Dukakis lead with his heart as well as his head? -- Abandoning restraint, the candidates embrace negative ads. -- A TIME poll charts who is most electable. See NATION...