Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press conference last week, Bush said the United States should play a "catalytic role" in bringing about democratic rule in Afghanistan. But advisers stressed later that the U.S. would continue a calculated policy of strict non-intervention in Afghanistan...
Clearly, economic deprivation can play an important role in the spread of AIDS. Explains Dr. Stanley Weiss of the department of preventive medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark: "If you talk to people in middle-class America, AIDS seems a significant threat because a lot of their other problems are under control. But if you approach the poor in the inner cities, they don't see the disease as such a threat. They have so many problems besides AIDS that it is hard to focus on this one issue." People...
...agreed to a round of TV, newspaper and magazine interviews. He was assigned by Bush to get his first taste of diplomacy on a visit to Venezuela and two to four other Latin American nations only a couple of weeks after being sworn in. Though Quayle played the traditional role of Just Barely Visible Man through most of the Inaugural ceremonies, he delivered what some advisers called his own Inaugural Address at the concluding gala Saturday night. Quayle said he had come to appreciate Winston Churchill's classic line that "nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot...
West Germany's Bundestag is normally an orderly parliament, courtly in its procedures and respectful of its leaders. But last week the Bundestag convened in an unaccustomed turmoil of accusation and recrimination over West Germany's role in building Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Members shouted angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered...
...also disclosed that the government knew of the involvement of West German firms in the construction of the plant last May, three months earlier than previous reports indicated. That statement only deepened the mystery of why Kohl not only failed to act on his knowledge of West Germany's role in the project until prodded by U.S. press leaks, but also angrily denied what he knew to be true...