Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes to disarmament negotiations, the devil is truly in the details. While the arms talks showed such progress last week that Yuli Vorontsov, the chief Soviet negotiator, predicted that an agreement could be reached by summer, it is still to be seen whether the momentum can be sustained. Both Gorbachev and Reagan would certainly like to hold a successful summit later this year -- maybe even one at which they exchange pens after initialing an arms-control agreement. But a lot of tough bargaining will have to take place before anyone can pull...
...unusually emotional courtroom finale, the Pollards pleaded desperately for clemency. But despite the fact that Pollard entered a guilty plea last summer and since then had been cooperating to some degree with the Government in fingering the Israeli officials with whom he had worked, U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr. concluded that Pollard's crime merited the harshest punishment the court could impose...
...election issue is a bitter one in a nation that has not had a democratic change of power since its founding in 1948, and hopes to show the world a peaceful face when it is host to the 1988 Summer Olympics. Chun, who would be the first South Korean leader to leave office voluntarily, wants to convert the presidential system into a parliamentary one that would choose his successor. That move would allow the party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such...
...SEASONS of my philanthropy puzzle me. I'm more inclined to give money to street people on a bright spring or summer afternoon, when I'm feeling fine and I want to celebrate with a little charity. Or, sometimes, I give to one of those guys who positions himself in front of young women in gray flannel suits and stays there until they give. This charity sometimes comes after I've passed by a whole row of polite, self-effacing guys like the one I passed last week...
During the past summer, the NCAA briefly made the tournament a nine-team competition, but subsequently returned it to the standard eight because of the difficulty of running a nine-team tourney...