Word: tortuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreclosed," McFarlane claimed. This was an abrupt reversal of U.S. policy. Previously, everyone had assumed that Article V of the treaty meant what it said: the U.S. and the Soviet Union were committed "not to develop, test or deploy ABM systems or components." The Pentagon accordingly made tortuous refinements in its program to stay in compliance. Some Star Wars equipment, for example, had been described as a new type of device: "subcomponents," a word not used in the treaty...
...those kind intentions came to a halt last week. With just five months left in his first term as mayor of Cambridge--the culmination of this five-term city councilor's career--Russell ended his tortuous bout with throat cancer last Sunday night and died a youthful...
...intends to invade its neighbors. Reagan has claimed that Sandinista officials have said Nicaragua wants a "revolution without frontiers." In fact, State Department officials admitted that they could not find any such statement. And a Defense Department official said that given Nicaragua's lack of modern weaponry and the tortuous terrain separating Nicaragua from its neighbors. "We don't expect an attack because we don't think they would be that stupid...
...much too early to take more than a quick measure of Gorbachev. First impressions, whether of new U.S. Presidents or new Soviet General Secretaries, have proved too often to be false impressions. Given the many promises made and broken, the aborted starts and wrong turnings in the tortuous history of U.S.-Soviet relations, there seemed little reason to hope that Moscow and Washington would be any more likely to take advantage of the present period of change to put their relationship on a new footing...
...sigh; this will be over with by and by." He has hired former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal as his defense attorney. "You're not ever going to see a fight like this," he vows. "There is no way that any evidence can be produced to sustain or substantiate the tortuous allegations made by the U.S. Attorney...