Word: retreated
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story. Said Rather: "Mr. Reagan told me, 'There has been no retreat by me, no change whatsoever. We will continue to arm Taiwan.' " Later, Rather said he admired the President's courteous manner: "He spoke his mind but didn't raise his voice ... Hope he won't hesitate to call again...
...seems to have got the better of the beach battle. The Soviet beach in question is a fly-ridden, muddy stretch usually avoided by Americans. The Yanks prefer the posher facilities on the Kliasma River near their weekend retreat at Tarasovka, 15 miles north of the capital. Not only that, but Moscow's retaliation failed to include the local tennis courts, where U.S. diplomats are still happily batting away; there is no golf course in Moscow from which U.S. diplomats can be banned...
...week in a luxury vacation retreat each year for the rest of your life for just $8,000, plus a small annual maintenance fee. That is the appeal of time-sharing ownership, the hottest and most controversial part of the depressed residential real estate business. New housing starts are at their lowest point since World War II, but during the past seven years the time-share business has exploded from $50 million to $1.3 billion in annual sales...
Paradise is usually in the eyes of the beholder, but for South Florida Developer Fred Bischoff, 42, this is it: Paradise Lakes Resort, a 184-unit, 40-acre retreat 17 miles north of Tampa. It advertises a healthful, family atmosphere, with lighted tennis and volleyball courts, an Olympic-size, 1,500-sq.-ft. swimming pool, a restaurant, two bars, a lake and a bandshell for outdoor concerts. Tenants include doctors, lawyers, teachers and clergymen. But a certain protocol must be observed. "Overt sexual behavior is unacceptable," says Bischoff. Visitors generally carry towels around to sit on "for hygiene, courtesy...
...oceanside retreat house in Spring Lake, N.J., five U.S. Roman Catholic bishops assembled last week to touch up a controversial document. According to Peter Steinfels, executive editor of the liberal Catholic journal Commonweal, the document is "the most serious effort the church has ever made, here, abroad, or in the Vatican, to come to grips with nuclear war." The five bishops, led by Joseph L. Bernardin, the new Archbishop of Chicago, spent a year taking testimony from 34 specialists ranging from outraged peace protesters to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. They then sent a 66-page first draft of a nuclear...