Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel's commission of inquiry issues a stern warning...
...equipment for the Soviet natural-gas pipeline. Shultz thought the sanctions were a mistake, since he knew U.S. attempts at enforcement were bound to cause more disarray in the NATO alliance than in the Soviet Union. Yet he characteristically never wavered in his public support of Reagan's stern approach...
Security men swept Walesa up the stairs to his waiting wife Danuta. She quickly dispatched them with a bottle of vodka and the stern warning, "Don't you dare intern my husband again!" Then, before turning in for the night, Walesa pulled aside the living room draperies and flashed a defiant V-for-victory sign to cheering supporters. It was a scene both comic and joyful, but devoid of triumph. Walesa's independent union Solidarity, which was formally banned by the government on Oct. 8, lies in ruins...
Defending the decision, a Shultz aide said, "We don't think the succession itself requires a major reassessment of the U.S. position." At a press conference on the day Brezhnev's death was announced, Reagan said that he had no intention of modifying his stern stance toward the Soviets without any give on their part. "We shouldn't delude ourselves," he declared. "Peace is the product of strength, not of weakness, effacing reality and not believing in false hopes." The President went on, "For ten years, detente was based on words from them and not on any deeds to back...
Gone are the heady days of the '60s and early '70s, when the average annual growth rate of 4.5% allowed the Soviets simultaneously to augment their arsenal, invest in new factories and improve living standards. Says Economics Professor Holland Hunter of Haverford College: "A very stern experiment in industrialization has been under way in the Soviet Union during the past half-century, and it has worked successfully. But this era has played itself...