Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise to learn that Ted Koppel's ethics and integrity [Jan. 30] emanate from a set of sound personal values as well as intellectual honesty...
...been delicately probing the possibilities of improved relations. Meeting for five hours during the Stockholm security conference in Europe last month, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko agreed to resume the Vienna talks in March. TIME has learned that Reagan authorized Shultz to sound Gromyko out on ways to resume START, including the possibility of a new framework for an agreement that differs dramatically from the Administration's existing proposal. Although Gromyko was so intransigent that Shultz could not pursue the idea, some American foreign policy analysts have interpreted recent Soviet calls...
...goals that they have always stated for the country: a broad-based government, a fairer division of national power and the withdrawal of all foreign forces. Honorable objectives, to be sure, but Washington may be realizing that their achievement is beyond its reach. Even Shultz did not sound optimistic. "Well, it's simply got to be possible," he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, "but I can't point to things that suggest any high probability in the future...
That night we moved to a Druze-run hotel at some distance from the area of the most concentrated fighting. But we could not escape the sound of warfare. As we reached the seaside hotel, the U.S.S. New Jersey opened up on artillery positions in the hills behind the city. Huge flashes of fire were followed by clouds of orange smoke. With each blast, the light fittings trembled, the windows rattled, and our hearts, for a second, stopped beating...
...more unfortunate results of the Reagan years is the growing deafness among Americans to the sound of the Presidential axe. Stunned by the harshness of the early Reagan budgets, the country has been unable to muster much opposition to successive plans, largely out of exhaustion. When the budget for fiscal years 1985 was released last week, attention focused on the ballooning government deficit and overlooked the guaranteed social inequality and demolished programs that can be expected from Administration policies...