Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HOWEVER, even though we are optimistic about the international scene and view Bush's recent arms proposals in a favorable light, we remain dismayed at the new president's inertia on the domestic front. For while taking an initial cautious approach may be prudent in matters of foreign policy, it seems ill-advised in matters of domestic policy that desperately need to be addressed. Granted, curtailing the drug epidemic in our cities or reducing the nation's budget deficit may not be exciting or dramatic, but they are as vital to America's future as any conventional arms agreements...
...return from that scene to Harvard, where students were having rallies in the Yard in order to motivate recalcitrant University administrators and faculty toward diversity in hiring, was indeed an anachronism...
...ensuing melee, Sullivan fell to the ground and was allegedly kicked by a student. A Harvard police officer soon broke up the fight at the scene, and no one was seriously injured...
Deng also made himself vulnerable to the supreme, and probably final, irony of his roller-coaster career. He carefully, patiently, skillfully set the scene for Gorbachev to visit China two weeks ago. The Soviet leader was coming on Deng's terms to end the 30-year schism between the Communist giants. Yet not only was this diplomatic triumph overshadowed by the more spectacular events in Tiananmen Square, but the demonstrators there carried banners in Russian demanding glasnost and saying IN THE SOVIET UNION THEY HAVE GORBACHEV. IN CHINA, WE HAVE WHOM...
...fill the gap, CBS tried to recapture some of the drama of the preceding week. When China Central Television announced that it would be shutting off its satellite-transmission facility on Wednesday, CBS booked the last block of , time, hoping to recreate a scene similar to the one a few days earlier, when viewers saw Chinese officials ordering Rather off the air. Sure enough, that night's CBS EVENING NEWS showed Rather at his anchor desk in New York City, interviewing Beijing correspondent John Sheahan. When Sheahan's picture suddenly disappeared from the screen, Rather abruptly...