Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gromyko, there could be no greater sin than a casual approach to one's duties. His reputation had earned him the nickname Grom, the Russian word for thunder. One victim of his thunderbolts was Rolland Timerbayev, a senior political officer in the U.N. mission, who had the thankless task of supervising the mission's move from Park Avenue to East 67th Street. When Gromyko was shown the completed work that autumn, he spent more than half an hour stuck between floors in a faulty elevator. Finally freed, he decided that Timerbayev should have a new career...
...their loans to Latin American nations, which staggered under a $350 billion debt burden. In June representatives of the debtor countries huddled in Cartagena, Colombia, raising fears that they would form a cartel to bargain collectively for easier terms. Warned Colombian President Belisario Betancur: "We hear the far-off thunder of violent drums. We feel the winds of storms." Despite such rhetoric, most of the debtors chose negotiation over confrontation. Mexico persuaded the banks to stretch out its payments on $48 billion in loans, originally due between now and 1990, over 14 years at reduced interest rates. Brazil is seeking...
...fight back. In September, Governor George Deukmejian signed into law legislation creating a new California film office which will help streamline the procedures for the use of state-owned property. Los Angeles itself has been successful in retaining some films that were about to be shot elsewhere. Blue Thunder, for instance, was originally to be shot in Chicago. Some observers wonder, however, whether such responses may be too late. Says Louis Steinberg, president of the Los Angeles Film Development Committee: "Five years from now we may meet and say, 'Hey, when did we throw away the movie business? There...
...office for attempting to arrange a Boston appearance for the bishop on the same day he was scheduled to speak at Harvard. News Office stafler Marvin Hightower accused a Flynn aide of "deceiving" Tutu into believing Harvard had okayed a Fancuil Hall appearance and or trying to "steal the thunder" from the scheduled campus visit. Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation which had invited Tutu to Harvard, complained that it would "interfere" with the campus visit if Tutu spoke in Boston as well...
...apology to Mayor Flynn, Rosen explained that the University had not known Flynn's office was arranging a visit by Tutu, and that therefore the comments about stealing Harvard's thunder were "inappropriate." But what renders Tutu's appearance appropriate, either in Boston or Harvard or anywhere, has nothing to do with the administrative arrangements behind the visits, but rather the substance of his call for justice for South African Blacks. That is a call which can only thunder more resoundingly the more frequently it is heard...