Word: stints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington Correspondent Bruce Nelan shares Talbott's absorption in strategy and the Soviets. Since 1976 he has interposed a three-year stint as Moscow bureau chief between two tours as TIME's defense correspondent. For this story, he interviewed civilian and military experts, and found, surprisingly, that "the glittery-eyed spinners of strategic schemes are in mufti. The officers who have custody of nuclear weapons are cautious and undramatic...
...imagine the travesty that would result if, prior to the baseball season, the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers and American League Champion New York Yankees decided they had grown bored of playing an entire 162-game stint. They preferred to spend less time on the ballfields and would instead endorse more bats and gloves to make up for the lost earnings...
Future Justice or no, Ely probably need not worry about posterity. As a Yale law student, he helped future Court Justice Abe Fortas win the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, in which the Court declared that indigents have the constitutional rights to counsel at trials. He did a stint on the staff of the Warren Commission investigating the death of President John F. Kennedy '40, clerked for Justice Warren the next year, and worked as a public defender in San Diego...
...knowledge of the region is newly acquired; he previously focused on Euro pean relations and trade, and does not speak Spanish. In his Latin American stint, he has become certain that the small, fragile Caribbean nations are unable to re main the he consigns them to conquest by Marxists unless the U.S. steps in. Says he: "This is not a matter of dispute. No one can seriously argue anything else...
...HIID's activities. In coordination with the Kennedy School of Government. HIID sponsors the Mason fellows, program that brings about two dozen mid-career public servants from the Third World to Harvard for a year of study. Fellows often go on to important responsibilities as a result of their stint at Harvard. Nancy Pyle, director of the program says. To illustrate this, Pyle tells of a major trade agreement recently concluded between Malaysia and Indonesia: the two signers were Mason fellows...