Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as Dobrynin measures Presidents, so do Presidents measure Moscow by him. He gets remote when Moscow gets remote. He grows silent when the Kremlin gets confused. He gets tough when the Politburo gets angry. Back during the 1973 Middle East war, he was as cold and hard as an iceberg while the Soviets seemed to be planning to intervene. Within a few hours after the U.S. went on military alert and threatened confrontation, he was laughing about the whole misunderstanding...
...protection of the exclusionary rule in civil deportation hearings because such a rule would unduly "burden" the administration of immigration laws. And in an exclusionary-rule case involving a suspected drunken driver in Ohio, the court held, 8 to 1, that the Miranda warnings on the right to remain silent and the right to counsel need not be given to motorists stopped routinely by police; those warnings must be given, the Justices added, if the driver is placed in custody...
...tourists gawked through the iron fence at the far end of the South Lawn. Warmth and tranquillity ruled. Reagan never shouted or scowled. With amiable demeanor and a gesture of good will, he was able to gather a varied political bouquet. Robert Strauss, former Democratic national chairman, was almost silent. House Democratic Majority Whip Tom Foley looked content. The gallant, crippled Jacob Javits, former Republican Senator from New York, wired his blessings. Judge John Sirica, who sent the Watergate offenders to jail, sat straight and proud. Rabbi Joseph Glaser caught every word. The Ambassador from China watched in fascination...
Says he: "It is not a call to organize a people's militia, to carry weapons and guns. But neither do we condone silent violence, where the masses are kept poor and ignorant...
...guns fell silent last week around the Sikhs' Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, leaving a tentative, uneasy calm in their wake. Steel-helmeted troops were positioned on many street corners, ready to quell any new outbreak of violence. The revered Golden Temple remained intact, but surrounding buildings lay in ruins or were seriously damaged. The destruction was a testament to the bloody battle that raged there for 36 hours earlier this month, after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the army to attack more than 1,000 heavily armed Sikh extremists barricaded inside the temple grounds...