Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take exception to the title of your article "Daddy's Disturbed Little Girl" [Jan. 2], which discusses the TV show about incest. Incest victims are just that, victims. Put the blame where it belongs: on Disturbed Little Dad and his ever so silent partner, Disturbed Little...
...reported this week's cover story found their subjects generally averse to the flamboyant display traditionally associated with new wealth. Says San Francisco Correspondent Michael Moritz, who also wrote the accompanying box on Venture Capitalist Arthur Rock, our cover figure: "I was impressed by Rock's silent power. People I talked to about him were reluctant to be critical, fearing his reach and influence." New York Correspondent Adam Zagorin was struck by the vitality of the multimillionaires he interviewed. "Stock Analyst Arnold Bernhard, for one, doubled his already considerable fortune when he was past 80," says Zagorin...
...first news from the closed-door Central Committee plenum came early in the evening. The official TASS press agency wire fell silent and then, as Western newsmen hovered over their teleprinters, the news agency's English-language service clicked back to life, teasingly printing out a test line again and again: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs." Then came an equally puzzling message. The Central Committee members had "acquainted themselves" with the text of an Andropov speech, reported the TASS dispatch. But had they heard Andropov speak? When the text of the address finally clattered over...
...with it. Critics in Congress and the press, however, wondered aloud whether the attack had not been a failure (see box). Though the Reagan Administration was correct in its assertion that the raid had silenced the Syrian antiaircraft batteries, there was no indication of how long they would remain silent. In any event, the mission's successes were obscured by the criticism that followed. The Syrians were jubilant at the downing of the U.S. planes, and other Arab nations considered it at least a minor setback for U.S. prestige...
...question from Secretary of State George Shultz was one that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir did not really want to answer. He remained silent, apparently in deep thought. "On that issue," he finally said, "I will have to consult my Foreign Minister." For a moment, the American negotiators said nothing. Then they remembered that Shamir, who had been Menachem Begin's Foreign Minister, had never relinquished that title. In the ensuing laughter, Shamir achieved his aim: the question was forgotten...