Word: tete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After months of coolness and caution, the U.S. and the Soviet Union suddenly seem consumed by arms-control fever. First, Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze ended their tete-a-tete in the Tetons by announcing plans for a spring summit. A few days later, George Bush and Shevardnadze were at the United Nations competing to see who could get rid of chemical weapons faster...
...Mickey "Tete a" Tettleton...
...offer the ironist cannot refuse. Not only is the commissioner his long-loathed brother, he is also the man who married Christine (Susan Sarandon), a haughty socialite for whom Nick still yearns. His price for cooperation? One tete-a-tete with that ambiguous lady. In Shanley's world, it is inevitable that this does not go awfully well. Nick asks her to listen to the wine breathe, serves octopus for the main course and generally comes on too strong. It is also inevitable that a perfect substitute for Christine will soon turn up. And it does, in the form...
...through. Western donors have supplied $22 million in trucks and tractors since 1984. CARE manages to move 11,000 tons of food and other relief supplies each month, mainly by road and rail. The routes, however, are often tortuously long. The straight-line distance from the northern town of Tete, a distribution center for relief shipments, to the famine-stricken Zumbo area on the western border is only 200 miles, yet the journey requires a 500-mile detour through Zimbabwe and Zambia. Round trips take at least ten days. Rail shipments from Zimbabwe to Maputo can take a month...
...first rationale lay behind Soviet behavior, they blundered. When the Soviet foreign minister on September 19 handed President Reagan a note from General Secretary Gorbachev asking for a brief tete-a-tete sometime soon, the President was quick to decline. "Not until Nick Daniloff is once again a free man!" he said...