Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When China was accused by the U.S. last summer of selling Iran Silkworm missiles that threatened shipping in the Persian Gulf, officials in Beijing entered the diplomatic equivalent of a consent decree. They denied having made such sales but promised to make none in the future. The same officials are saying even less about another recently disclosed missile deal: the sale to Saudi Arabia of an undisclosed number of intermediate-range CSS-2 missiles capable of reaching virtually anywhere in the Middle East, including Israel...
...being recalled from Riyadh after a tour of only six months. It was unclear whether the missile flap was involved, but the issue could hardly have been a highlight of his brief tenure. Horan's possible successor: Walter Cutler, who served in the post from 1984 until last summer...
...that was threatening our nation." The two were high-ranking FBI officials convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins during 1972-73 investigations of the Weather Underground. The response by the prosecutor in that case, John Nields Jr., who served as chief House counsel in the Iran-contra hearings last summer, is just as apt today. Nields argued that pardons in such cases "send out a terrible signal -- that the Government can violate the Constitution and then forgive itself...
...Japanese prodigy Midori (born Midori Goto), a student of noted Violin Teacher Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard. Midori's robust tone and strong technique -- and her uncanny composure in the face of two broken strings during her performance of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade -- stunned a Tanglewood audience on a muggy summer night two years ago at a Boston Symphony concert led by Bernstein...
...seven, he was receiving envoys from President Franklin Roosevelt and leading prayers before 20,000 watchful monks; yet he remained a thoroughly normal little boy who loved to whiz around the holy compound in a pedal car and instigate fights with his siblings. "I recall one summer day -- I must have been about seven -- when my mother took me to the Norbulingka Summer Palace to see His Holiness," recalls the Dalai Lama's youngest brother Tenzin Choegyal. "When we got there, His Holiness was watering his plants. The next thing I knew, he was turning the hose...