Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cease-fire went into effect, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., gave an exclusive interview to TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart. The session took place in an underground P.L.O. bunker while armed commandos sat in every doorway. Instead of the usual Arab headdress, Arafat was wearing a stiff fatigue cap and an olive-drab uniform. Excerpts from the interview...
...Tuesday morning, Reagan took a highly publicized horseback ride with Queen Elizabeth through Windsor Home Park. Reagan's chestnut gelding, Centennial, donated to the royal stables by the Canadian Mounties, was certainly no match for the spirited steeds the President rides in the U.S. With stiff upper lip, a palace aide described the horse as "reasonable." Reagan paused to exchange inane but affable banter with reporters. Queen Elizabeth, wearing a yellow scarf, listened for a while, looking distinctly displeased, then began to ride off. A moment later, Reagan followed. British and American accounts of the royal family...
...handcuffed and hustled without explanation into a police car. Technically, at least, the graduate student from Noblesville, Ind., had not been arrested. She was merely being held in a Peking detention center, under investigation for "theft of state secrets," a charge that could have brought a stiff sentence in China...
...Washington, meanwhile, the Reagan Administration's proposal to raise civil defense spending to an estimated $4.2 billion in the next seven years is meeting stiff resistance from a Capitol Hill contingent led by Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.). FEMA authorities complain that without more funding, they cannot move from planning to implementing any measures...
...itself the Sony machine should not cause serious concern to established firms such as Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack, Apple Computer and International Business Machines Corp. The SMC-70 is aimed at the office-equipment market, where Sony faces stiff competition, and it will initially be sold only through Sony's 450 video-and office-machine outlets...