Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might make her vain. Yet Duke, 40, forgives them because they also made her an actress -- the craft that sustained her through four marriages, unwed motherhood and repeated suicide attempts triggered by manic-depressive illness that remained undiagnosed until her middle 30s. She looks back not in anger or self-pity but with generosity of spirit...
...result, taping phone conversations came to be regarded as terribly sleazy. At least a dozen states have laws against such secret self-taps, as U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick was reminded when he tried to resurrect the practice...
...stocky, courtly, self-deprecating man, Reston likes to say that "scoops don't come from the top, but from the periphery -- from allies, or from congressional committees that have to be told something in advance." Nonetheless, as his reputation as a diplomatic correspondent grew, scoops came from the top too. It was John Foster Dulles who leaked the Yalta papers after Reston persuaded him that Senator Joe McCarthy was making Dulles look bad with informed innuendos about their contents. The Times published the full text in 32 pages...
...late 1981 or early 1982 worked out a deal, which later fell through, to obtain a top-of-the-line T-72 Soviet battle tank from Iraq, a Soviet client, in return for American self-propelled artillery weapons for the Iraqi army...
...large stockpiles of wheat and rice. But food shortages are a real possibility, and India may be forced to import grain for the first time in years. That could create new political problems for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, whose ruling party has taken credit for India's recent self-sufficiency in food grains...