Word: signal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Shiffer, Sharon took Haig's monologue as the go-ahead signal. Haig insisted to TIME through a spokesman last week that he never gave Sharon the encouragement implied. According to Haig, moreover, the former Defense Minister has assured him he never took his words as approval. Even if the Secretary of State did deliver the speech cited in Sniffer's book, it at best constituted not a green light but an amber one, full of the normal ambiguities of diplomatic discourse...
...qualified. Teeter's "somewhat surprising finding," he told David Burnham of the New York Times, was that such viewers rated these politicians they did not know "just about the same as people who presumably know about their actual positions and performance." Body language may be the new communications signal in campaigns. It may not be a onetime aberration that an actor became President. Perhaps all future politicians will have to develop these qualities. One just hopes that the content and wisdom of their views will still matter...
Deukmejian's unexpected largesse does not signal a fundamental change of heart, however. His budget eliminates 5,000 government jobs and calls for $609 million to build prisons for 11,000 convicts. Health and welfare programs got a miserly 3.5% increase. Most important, the debt-fearing Governor socked away $950 million for "rainy days." Said he: "This emergency fund is our highest savings priority...
...advised to negotiate with the Nicaraguans and offer to withdraw support for the Contras provided the Sandinistas stop aiding Salvadoran guerrillas and reduce ties with the Cubans and Soviets. Recent moves by the Sandinistas such as scheduling elections, expelling 2000 Cuban advisers and granting greater freedom to the opposition signal a willingness on the part of the Nicaraguans to come to terms with the U.S. Washington must seize this opportunity and pursue peaceful negotiations...
...freeing Goodman. He came off as reasonable and conciliatory, an impression at odds with his dictatorial rule. He made it more difficult for the U.S. to flex its military muscle against Syria without appearing to be a warmonger. Most U.S. officials interpreted Assad's decision as a signal that Syria wants a rapprochement with the U.S., rather than more confrontation. White House aides insist that Syria has been impressed by American willingness to strike back, with both fighter-bombers and battleship guns, and point out that U.S. reconnaissance planes have not been shot at since mid-December...