Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. John Hoagland, 36, photographer for the Gamma-Liaison agency on assignment for Newsweek; of a gunshot wound suffered during a skirmish between government and guerrilla forces; near Suchitoto, El Salvador. Hoagland, a Central American specialist who had just been reassigned after a month's stint in Lebanon, was noted for his military knowledge and striking action photographs. He is the tenth foreign journalist killed in El Salvador in the past four years...
That early rhetorical skirmish set the tone for a meeting in which, according to one Irish official, "no real negotiations ever got started." A distracted Kohl did not intervene between his quarreling partners; at one point in the session, to the annoyance of other summiteers, he slipped away to a Greek TV center for a three-way conversation with President Reagan and the West German astronaut aboard Skylab. After the slender hope of a last-minute compromise vanished during the closing summit dinner, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi told the press, "If I may use metaphorical language, we failed...
...First skirmish in the Gulf...
...ranks, Pickens is a free-spirited dealmaker whose company has bought and sold stakes in three other oil firms in the past two years, earning more than $100 million along the way. At a special meeting of Gulf shareholders last week, the two men squared off for the first skirmish in what may be a long struggle...
...there is something very fundamental at stake in the conflict between East and West. Without that basis in the moral order, no amount of strategic brilliance or foreign policy sophistication will be able to keep the peace and sustain political freedom in Western Europe. The West has won this skirmish with the Soviets but its weak spots will take a long time to overcome. Unaccustomed as it may sound, we can coexist most peacefully with the Soviet Union when the Russians understand first, that nothing is to be gained by accumulating more weapons, and second, that the Western public...