Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would cost U.S. farmers $500 million a year in lost sales. The U.S. responded with a threat to retaliate by July 1 against a host of European consumer items, including Perrier water, Brie cheese and Heineken beer. The E.C. came back with talk of restrictions on more products. Said Sir Roy Denman, the E.C. ambassador to the U.S.: "This is the nearest approach to trade war across the Atlantic I've seen in 35 years...
...decided that after Britain takes over the presidency of the organization for six months beginning July 1, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe will visit South Africa in the hope of establishing a dialogue between the country's government officials and black leaders. The Europeans also declared that in three months they will decide on "further measures" that might be needed, including a ban on new investments in South Africa and a curb on the import of South African coal, iron and steel, and gold coins...
According to the report, full professors in Britain earn as little as $30,000 a year, while the U.S. average has hit $42,500, with academic stars pulling down $75,000 to $100,000 and more. Sir David Phillips, chief scientific adviser to Britain's Secretary of State for Education and Science and an Oxford professor in molecular biophysics, makes...
...were not well received by the allies. In a welcoming speech, Canada's Minister of External Affairs Joe Clark dispensed with diplomatic circumlocution, calling President Reagan's decision "a profoundly disturbing development." The three-hour closed-door session that followed was described as a "lively exchange." British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told participants, "We believe that SALT II provides the basis for a good agreement, and we would very much regret it if the Americans felt obliged to break it." Shultz argued, to no avail. The room was unanimously, and strenuously, against...
...asked the British National Theater to put on its stage production of George Orwell's book, a pointed antitotalitarian satire that is a no-no behind the Iron Curtain. Moscow, hearing of the booking, grunted nyet. Fearing a festival-wrecking boycott, Institute President Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, got Sir Peter Hall, the National Theater director, to agree to stage Farm independently, not as part of the festival. Now Hall is raising a squawk: Censorship! No, replies Soyinka: the booking was scratched only to ensure that the festival does not "cease to exist." Rejoins Hall: Soyinka's rationalization was "double...