Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casual appearance was deceptive. For three hours Kirkland kept Hillenbrand at the table, speaking with remarkable perception and good humor about her commitment to the fantastical and fiercely competitive world of dance. There, and in a second session at Washington's Watergate Hotel, she answered all questions about her on-and offstage rivalry with Sister Johnna, a dancer herself; her maturing relationship with Choreographer George Balanchine; her feelings about music; the physical breakdown that lost her a starring movie role in The Turning Point; and her new-found artistic maturity. When she discovered that her interviewer was a fellow...
...First Deputy Minister of Defense and chief of the Soviet general staff. His uniformed appearance was the first by a high-ranking military specialist at SALT negotiations since Gerald Ford met with Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in 1974. Gromyko also brought a thick folder marked Pervaya Beseda (First Session). Noticing that Chief U.S. SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke, on Vance's right, had only a blank legal pad, Gromyko asked jokingly whether that meant the Americans had neglected to bring any new proposals. Of course, Gromyko knew better. Vance soon offered a detailed presentation of the U.S. position, while Soviet...
...down-home night at the White House, and the President hammed it up as emcee. "This is not my regular line of work," he drawled, and added with a grin: "Some people might think I do this better." On hand for both a concert and an impromptu jam session were country performers who had twanged for Carter on the campaign trail, including Tennessee's Charlie Daniels. "When I was broke and didn't have any money for my campaign," recalled Jimmy, "Charlie Daniels gave a benefit performance for me. I might not be President today without his help...
...policy making. Moreover, as a disarmament specialist serving as Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's principal assistant in the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, he was familiar with Soviet positions on strategic arms. For example, Shevchenko had been instrumental in organizing next month's special U.N. session on disarmament, which, it was reported, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev planned to attend...
...made no decision-he neither authorized the weapon's development nor definitively dropped it-the episode triggered a political flurry in Bonn. The Bundestag's Foreign Affairs and Defense committees last week summoned Schmidt to clarify the problems in U.S.-West German ties in a secret joint session. The Chancellor also had to take the Bundestag's rostrum to open a neutron bomb debate demanded by his conservative opposition...