Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When ministers from eleven debtor countries met last week in Cartagena, Colombia, to devise a strategy for getting concessions from the banks, most of them maintained a conciliatory tone and rejected the idea of a cartel. Said Chilean Economy Minister Modesto Collados: "Each country is different. To negotiate in a club makes no sense at all." But the depth of Latin restiveness could hardly be concealed. In his opening speech, President Betancur compared Latin America's financial burden to the crushing debt and reparations problems after World War I, which helped wreck the international economy in the 1930s...
...Konstantin Chernenko would just climb up, the two world leaders could sit together at the summit and begin to thaw the big chill between the superpowers. Reagan's calming words marked a clear departure from his old hard line against a summit. But few experts expected the new tone to lead to a superpower sitdown any time soon...
Chernenko's words were echoed in the political declaration issued by the ten Communist nations after the close of their meeting. "International tension has grown substantially as a result of the course pursued by the aggressive forces of imperialism, primarily U.S. imperialism," the document charged. Ignoring the conciliatory tone of President Reagan's press conference, which had taken place twelve hours earlier, the statement went on to accuse Washington of an "escalation of the arms race" that "jeopardizes the very existence of mankind...
...table where the superpowers had been discussing nuclear arms control. Yet in the four months since Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov, the chill factor from Moscow has intensified. The trend is all the more noticeable because it contrasts so sharply with President Reagan's new and uncharacteristically conciliatory tone (see NATION...
...countrymen shared that assessment. What grated most strongly perhaps was the perception that the commemoration stressed the notion of victory rather than the theme of postwar friendship. Though a number of newspaper editorials pointed to the absence of anything resembling a vindictive tone in the ceremonies, Alois Mertes, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, suggested that the celebrations "could make the German people feel alienated, vanquished and guilty," something that might "give impetus to pacifists and neutralists who are seeking a special German role between East and West...