Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began, but the champion of glasnost sounded as if he meant business. He leavened his remarks with modest but significant new concessions on the last major unresolved issue at the talks, a timetable for a Soviet withdrawal. He said Moscow would evacuate its troops over ten months, a time span tantalizingly close to the eight months demanded by the West. Addressing a key U.S. concern, he said that a "relatively greater portion" of the forces could leave at the beginning of the period. If those gestures satisfied the other parties to the conflict, he said, Soviet tanks might start clanking...
...next day Diego Cordovez, the United Nations mediator in the Afghan talks, announced that representatives from Pakistan and the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan, the two formal parties to the talks, would sit down again in Geneva on March 2. Said the U.N. diplomat: "The gap ((on the time span)) has been closed to a point where I think a specific agreement at Geneva is clearly foreseeable." U.S. officials were also pleased. Said a senior Reagan official: "The move shows a boldness on the part of Gorbachev. If the Soviets withdraw, it will allow him to concentrate on perestroika ((economic...
...American initiative, largely based on the moribund 1978 Camp David plan calling for an interim period of Palestinian autonomy, telescopes the earlier agreement's five-year time span into a matter of months. The Reagan Administration's newfound sense of urgency was clearly inspired by the latest Palestinian uprising. The U.S. was also prodded into action by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who in Washington two weeks ago promoted a plan calling for a six-month truce and the convening of an international conference. The Administration combined some of Mubarak's suggestions with elements of previous proposals into what Secretary...
...verdict that the U.S. may become healthier in the long run by accepting its diminishing status gracefully. But until it is convincingly refuted by other theorists or the years ahead, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers stands as a fascinating response to ancient questions about the life- span of nations...
...television has presided in an eerily total way over the presidential campaign. Although the televised debates have been often numbing, they have allowed voters to get to know the candidates, some of whom were utterly obscure before. Unblinking news channels like CNN and C-SPAN have relentlessly tracked the field...