Word: stolidness
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...East Germany's normally stolid Neues Deutschland, it was a rare scoop. The Communist Party daily reported last week that Soviet troops were preparing to dismantle the first of 54 SS-12 nuclear missiles in East Germany that are scheduled to be scrapped under the U.S.-Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. The move came as the accord continued to meet stiff opposition during a U.S. Senate debate over its ratification...
...Soviet Union's most loyal ally in Eastern Europe, stolid Bulgaria has always followed in Moscow's footsteps. The economic reform drive launched by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seemed no exception to that rule. In a startling turn away from its hard-line policies of the past, the regime headed by Communist Party Leader Todor Zhivkov, 76, swiftly followed Gorbachev's lead. From promised press freedoms to plans for a new commercial banking ! system, Zhivkov's program seemed intended, as a Western diplomat in Sofia put it, "to out-Gorbachev Gorbachev...
...furor underscores the conflict between Britain's shaky tradition of press rights and stolid tradition of government secrecy. In mid-1986 two British papers reported that Wright, who signed the standard life pledge not to reveal official secrets, had prepared a manuscript disclosing, among other things, that a group of MI5 agents had conspired in 1974 to topple the Labor government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wright also speculated that a former MI5 director general, the late Sir Roger Hollis, was a Soviet mole. In the U.S., such charges might have produced a riot of headlines and calls for congressional...
DIED. Will Sampson, 53, stolid, 6-ft. 7-in. full-blooded Creek Indian actor, painter and rodeo bull rider, best known for his 1975 debut role as the silent Chief Bromden in the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; of kidney failure following a successful heart-and-lung transplant; in Houston...
McFarlane's testimony last week conveyed a far different moral lesson: how easily America as a nation has come to accept public hypocrisy. With his uninflected answers and his stolid manner, his face puffy from strain and fatigue, McFarlane radiated the melancholy of moral responsibility. All his enemies were within, as a good soldier tried to square his own misguided conduct with internal standards of honor and integrity. In the depths of his soul, McFarlane had been tested and found wanting, and it was that shame he could not help conveying...