Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan and others in the Administration, most notably Secretary of State George P. Schultz in a recent shift of rhetoric, frequently claim that Nicaragua intends to invade its neighbors. Reagan has claimed that Sandinista officials have said Nicaragua wants a "revolution without frontiers." In fact, State Department officials admitted that they could not find any such statement. And a Defense Department official said that given Nicaragua's lack of modern weaponry and the tortuous terrain separating Nicaragua from its neighbors. "We don't expect an attack because we don't think they would be that stupid...
...person who left his watch in an envelope with the desk monitor at the IAB Wednesday returned later to find his envelope empty. The monitor originally on duty had been had been relieved for a shift change Police said similar disappearances have been reported at the IAB in the past...
...committee which advised Bok on whether to accept or reject the Sociology, Department's tenure nominatic of Starr consisted primarily of members of a 1981 advisory committee that recommended to Bok to shift the department towards a quantitative approach to Sociology, Start said...
Andropov also began the task of bringing new faces into the uppermost reaches of the bureaucracy, replacing 32 of the 157 regional party secretaries, often with younger men. That was only a small tremor in a shift that is still moving through the bureaucracy. According to a senior British diplomat, the largest turnover of local Communist officials in recent memory took place during biennial party committee elections between November 1983 and January 1984. Nonetheless, the pace of change remains slow, and most top officials in the Soviet bureaucracy are, like most Politburo members, in their...
According to one Western diplomat in Khartoum, "The arrests seem to represent a shift away from the extreme policies of the past toward an atmosphere of reconciliation." Whether the President's latest moves will calm the country, says a former government minister, "depends on what Nimeiri ; does next...