Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Randall Terry, the pro-lifers' flamboyant orator, 29 and impulsive, wants to start moving the caravan before further layers of obstruction can be brought into place. He says enough men can just lift the few blockading cars out of the way. But Jeff White, two years Terry's senior and in charge of today's operation, brushes past him to form a little circle of his friends and pray. Praying out loud is the first response to any setback for this group. (Terry often interjects, in the middle of conversation in a normal tone, a groaned "Jesus help...
...proposed opening talks on reducing the remaining short-range nuclear arsenals in Europe. The U.S. adamantly opposes the timing, arguing that conventional arms talks, which have just begun, must be wrapped up first. But the West German government is under enormous pressure to persuade the Americans to agree to start bargaining immediately for "equal but lower" levels of short-range nuclear weapons. Some leading West Germans are even pushing for eventual elimination of all short-range nuclear arms in NATO's forward zones, something the U.S. categorically rejects on the ground that without them, conflicts might break out more easily...
President Bush could make the nightmare all the more likely if he decides -- as some of his aides and key Congressmen are urging -- to start sending U.S. arms to the non-Communist resistance forces. Under present circumstances, and under current U.S. policy, that "lethal assistance" would be directed against Phnom Penh, not the Khmer Rouge...
...suspected Palestinian guerrilla. Rashid has been charged with planting a bomb on a Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu in 1982 that killed one passenger and wounded 15. American officials are hoping that the Rashid case can be a first. Says one: "We hope that terrorists will start running out of places...
Will Whittle start a trend? Not everywhere. Declares Roger Straus, chief executive of the Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishing house: "We would certainly not condone the use of advertising in our books." Thus the prospect of Joe Isuzu popping up in Pride and Prejudice is not quite at hand...