Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets did not budge, however, on their opposition to Star Wars. In fact, the formal Soviet proposal appeared to retreat from Gorbachev's suggestion to TIME last month that the Kremlin might at least agree to permit "fundamental" research on space-based defense systems. The Soviet proposal stipulates a prohibition on "development (including scientific research) of space strike weapons." In Geneva, Karpov did leave a little maneuvering room by stating, with studied ambiguity, that "we're not against basic research--we never were. We are against research that leads to the creation of space strike weapons." If the Soviets insist...
Attending a retreat with a group of priests in Youngstown last week, Malone told TIME, "What we need now is not to turn aside from Vatican II teaching but to grasp it with new enthusiasm and to pursue its implementation with new vigor." Since the synod will provide only two weeks to do that, Malone's report also asserted, it might be time for a special U.S. synod to deal with Vatican II. Though the U.S. bishops meet briefly once or twice a year, their last extended national council was in 1884. The U.S. bishops' conference and the Vatican have...
...promotion to help convince developers that a working trout stream could enhance the value of their real estate properties. Starting with small projects around Bozeman, McIntyre began advertising in fly-fishing magazines and putting out brochures describing his work. He has rehabilitated a stream for an oil-company retreat in Pennsylvania, studied a river in New York's Catskill Mountains and designed a trout environment for the Milwaukee...
...privacy in the family quarters on the second floor. Not so Ronald Reagan's beloved Rancho del Cielo near Santa Barbara. When the Reagans are in residence, TV networks station cameras with giant telephoto lenses on a hilly knob in the Santa Ynez Mountains, three miles from the presidential retreat. Even from that distant vantage point, the equipment is almost powerful enough to show how many rashers of bacon are on the Reagans' breakfast plates. This summer ABC was especially eager to capture a recuperating Reagan on horseback, so the news editors went to the sports division for an even...
ENGAGED. Liv Ullmann, 46, Norwegian actress of stage and screen (Dangerous Moves), autobiographer (Choices) and emissary for unicef; and Donald L. Saunders, 50, Boston real estate broker; at her summer retreat near Sandefjord, on Norway's south coast. It will be the second marriage for Ullmann, who also had a long relationship with Swedish Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, the father of her daughter Linn...