Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert B. Parker...
...senior Administration officials inferentially warned against rushing into agreements predicated on the idea that Gorbachev will succeed in reforming Soviet society. Robert Gates, No. 2 at the National Security Council, asserted in a speech and article in the Washington Post that "our view of the Soviet Union cannot be based on the personalities of its leaders but on the nature of the Soviet system itself. We face a deeply entrenched philosophy and system of government that has depended on repression at home and promoted aggression beyond its borders. Gorbachev is challenging some aspects of this system, but even he acknowledges...
...class of nuclear weapons has been marked for destruction under the INF treaty signed in 1987. As the Soviets and their allies disentangle themselves from conflicts in Namibia and Cambodia, they are making diplomatic inroads in the Middle East and China. "Shevardnadze has mastered the foreign policy agenda," says Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's W. Averell Harriman Institute of Soviet Affairs. "He is of a similar creative mind as Gorbachev, not simply his tool...
...journalist Lowell Thomas was the first to recognize that Lawrence's wartime work -- organizing disparate Arab tribes into armed revolt against the occupying Turks, allies of Germany -- had pop-myth possibilities. Thomas' publicity essentially created the figure known as Lawrence of Arabia, but others contributed to the saga. Robert Graves wrote a life of Lawrence that appeared in 1927, when its subject was only 39. Lawrence told his own story in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which was published shortly after his death from a motorcycle accident...
...decade of dogfights and mergers has eliminated hundreds of competitors, leaving control of the industry concentrated in fewer hands than ever before. -- Why computerized reservations systems have become vital to an airline's ability to compete. -- Under tough-guy chairman Robert Crandall, American Airlines is the leader in profits and popularity. -- A British advertising juggernaut bids for Ogilvy & Mather...