Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young Sam, newly elected leader of the New Democratic Party, has taken advantage of the respite to demand the complete restoration of democracy, and has said that he would be willing to talk with North Korea's dictator Kim II Sung about reunification. Sums up one Washington specialist: "The oppressive machinery is still there, but it has been applied much less in recent years...
...this week's cover story on the SALT II summit, the trip was the culmination of months, and in some cases years, of preparation. Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan, who followed the Soviet side of the talks, started covering SALT in 1977 as TIME'S defense specialist in Washington. White House Correspondent Chris Ogden who covered the U.S. delegation, was reporting from Moscow when Richard Nixon arrived to sign SALT lin 1972. For Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, the Vienna summit was quite literally a final chapter, both in his extensive coverage of SALT II for TIME...
...medical student, I found myself agreeing with the Boston specialist about the physician's right to charge high fees. It's disheartening to realize that while the public apparently demands perfection in technique and diagnosis, it pays for it rather grudgingly...
...showdown on the floor: Richard Perle, 37, a former consultant to the Defense Department, adviser to SALT Critic Henry Jackson of Washington and widely considered to be the best informed opponent of SALT in Senate staff circles, and Larry Smith, 43, for four years a strategic affairs specialist on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee and now administrative assistant to SALT Supporter Gary Hart of Colorado. Their forceful views suggested an important conclusion: instead of a simple either/or verdict, the Senate outcome may well turn on whether amendments can be devised that will allay the doubts of skeptical...
Players is really two pictures. The final match goes five sets, with tie breakers, and it is wonderful, the most believable sports footage one can recall in a fictional feature. (Actually, Wimbledon was shot by a second-unit sports specialist, Rimas Vainorius.) The flashback material is so bad that you get the feeling the projectionist may have carelessly scrambled the reels of a double feature. Some of the training sequences will interest tennis hackers curious to know what it would be like to take lessons from Gonzalez. It must also be said that Dean-Paul Martin, Dino...