Word: signal
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...down. The timing of the order may have another purpose: Washington is annoyed by what it regards as Kremlin stalling in arranging a follow-up to the Geneva summit that is supposed to be held in the U.S. this year, and is seizing on various methods to signal displeasure. If so, Moscow seemed equally displeased: the Soviet news agency TASS called the U.N. restriction an attempt to prevent any thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...court's latest actions will hardly dampen official antiporn efforts. Indeed, as part of the ongoing work of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, Edwin Meese last week approved a new $100,000 study of porn's antisocial impact. But the court did seem to signal what it believes is a constitutional approach. As UCLA Law Professor Henry McGee describes it, the emerging doctrine appears to be "If people want it, they can have it. But they shouldn't subject everyone else...
...Pigs invasion. Playwright Keith Reddin, 29, was a child of four when CIA-backed Cuban insurgents made their disastrous landing in 1961, but he captures with compassion and accuracy the Kennedy Administration's fundamental miscalculation: the belief in a nonexistent Cuban underground that was only waiting for a signal of support to rise up and overthrow Fidel Castro. Reddin presents the Bay of Pigs fiasco as a dress rehearsal by America's best and brightest for their misjudgments in Viet Nam. Some of the funniest scenes depict the white-collar macho of bureaucrats who react to caution as a sign...
...degrees of support from as many as half of the Philippine military's 15,000 officers. Last week the armed forces Deputy Chief of Staff Lieut. General Fidel Ramos, 57, and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, 62, took the unorthodox--and daring--step of resigning their lofty posts to signal that they too belong...
...stability of an important Pacific ally. As a senior White House official later put it, "We're in a no-win situation at this point. If we accent the fraud, it gives Marcos an excuse to throw out the election. If we side with Aquino, it's a signal to her to take to the streets. We're opting for stability, that's the key word...