Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Academic journals, not newspapers, will debate the roles of President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev in the softening of the superpowers. Architects who molded the course of events or symbols of an inevitable thaw? That is what the scholars must decide...
Khong says Reagan deserves some credit since the thaw occurred during his tenure, but, "the question is degree then...
...bargaining feelers on hold while pumping up the Pentagon budget to gargantuan proportions. Though the process often seemed serendipitous, depending heavily on events in Moscow, Reagan eventually presided over a microwave warming of relations with the Soviet Union. No one can be sure how genuine or durable the thaw will be, but it has helped Reagan enormously. With the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in force and Moscow in a conciliatory mood, he can ignore the criticism that his conduct of national-security affairs has been generally incoherent...
...been broken." So allowed an impassive Mikhail Gorbachev as he stood beside a wooden-faced Helmut Kohl amid the czarist splendor of the Kremlin's St. George Hall. The Soviet leader's chilly assessment of his first private meeting with the West German Chancellor brought little warmth to the thaw in relations between the Soviet Union and West Germany. But that hardly mattered in the cold calculation of national interests that dominated four days of careful, even curt talks between Europe's two pre-eminent powers. Gorbachev's impoverished military superpower is keen to profit from Western investment and trade...
This week the Dukakis campaign unveils commercials that attempt to thaw out the Ice Man. The ads, says Dukakis media chief David D'Alessandro, "show who he really is." Dukakis talks directly to the camera. In one he recalls what it was like to be a young father. In another he sketches his hopes for the future. But do not expect Phil Donahue. Says D'Alessandro: "Dukakis has a limit as to how much he can do as far as changing his persona." Maybe all this touchy-feely stuff is not so important after all. Noted campaign manager Susan Estrich...