Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world anxious about the arms race, could the appointment lead to a thaw in relations with the U.S. and the resumption of the nuclear arms negotiations that were ruptured when the Soviets walked out of the Geneva talks late last year (see following story...
...Reagan Administration did its best last week to suggest that the changing of the guard in the Kremlin was an opportunity for the superpowers to thaw their frigid relations. After his meeting with Konstantin Chernenko, Vice President George Bush declared that the two men had agreed on the need "to place our relationship upon a more constructive path." He added, "The mood was good, the spirit was excellent. It signals that we can go from there...
Reagan sought to bring about a thaw in the superpower chill when he acknowledged in a speech last month that "our working relationship with the Soviet Union is not what it must be." By that time, all hope for a summit between Reagan and Andropov had passed. A final interview published under Andropov's name in Pravda offered no new counterproposal for breaking the deadlock. Instead, it repeated earlier calls for the U.S. and its NATO allies to "display readiness" to return to the situation that had existed before missiles were deployed in Western Europe...
...have time to fret-about wildlife and water. From Denver to Boise, Idaho, herds of antelope, deer and elk are wandering out of the deep back-country snow dazed and starving. The snowfall, three or four times as great as normal, makes Rockies residents look toward the spring thaw with apprehension. Says California Meteorologist Jerome Namais: "This is potentially a very dangerous situation." All over the region, the snow facts seem almost like Paul Bunyan tall tales. Utah and Idaho last endured such snowy winters in the 1880s. In Alta, Utah, more than 20 ft. fell during December alone, exceeding...
...first time a British Prime Minister had ever visited Hungary, and Margaret Thatcher was determined to make the most of it. Wearing a sable hat and her warmest smile, she set out to thaw the relationship between Britain and the Communist bloc that she had helped to freeze. She called her two-day visit to wintry Budapest last week "the first step of quite a long journey" toward the goal of linking East and West...