Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time is right in Switzerland for a woman to join the Federal Council, but not Uchtenhagen. She was the victim not of male resistance but of her party's politics and her chilly personality. The silent majority of Swiss women and men are patient and will wait for another woman...
...splitting bursts into the air. A few miles offshore, the menacing shape of the U.S. battleship New Jersey glided slowly past, like a big gray cat circling a bird cage. Its 16-in. guns, which had rained devastation on Druze strongholds in the Chouf Mountains the week before, were silent now, unable to do anything about the rapidly deteriorating situation on shore. The militiamen who bothered to look at the New Jersey just laughed...
...Persian carpet. On a single day last week some 4,000 to 6,000 refugees crossed the Awali, rumbling over a bridge and through an Israeli checkpoint at the rate of three cars or trucks a minute from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Most of the refugees were silent; the only consistent sound was the idling motors of hundreds of cars in long lines waiting to get on the bridge. Said a man from the village of Jiyah, who gave his name only as Simon: 'Lebanon is something that belongs only to fairy tales. I gave up. There...
...bombardment would provoke hatred for the U.S. without changing the course of the battle and could possibly invite retaliation against the Marines hunkered down at the airport. Weinberger's aides denied the stories, but the shelling was in fact scaled down. The New Jersey's guns were silent last week, though the U.S. destroyer Claude V. Ricketts did fire several dozen rounds of 5-in. shells at Druze positions...
Reagan's efforts did not get very far. Israel, fearful that the three heads of state were cooking up some kind of deal at its expense, was anything but reassured by Mubarak's comment at the end of the lunch. As Reagan stood by in silent disapproval, the Egyptian President called on the U.S. to deal directly with the Palestine Liberation Organization. "You can't control the statement of a departing chief of state," said one Reagan lieutenant, who judged Mubarak's statement a public relations "disaster" for Reagan...