Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel succeeded. That was almost easy, since a lot of Lebanese also wanted to get rid of the P.L.O. The Israeli soldiers were welcomed as saviors: "Everywhere you went in Lebanon, Jews were getting their pictures taken. This was not a nation at war, it was a nation on tour...
When he begins his tour of Poland and Hungary this weekend, President George Bush will seek to certify a new era emerging from these convulsions. For Poland and Hungary are where the cold war began 42 years ago. And when historians write about the implosion of Communism in the late 1980s, they will note that it likewise began when those two satellites meandered from the Soviet orbit...
...exchange program of sorts: his former counterpart, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, came to the U.S. last summer. Akhromeyev, now a close adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, accompanied Crowe on an eleven-day, nine-stop tour that stretched from Murmansk in the far north to Sochi on the Black Sea. Last week Crowe was summoned to the Kremlin for an audience with Gorbachev. The Soviet leader used the occasion to compliment the man who had appointed Crowe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1985: "Former President Reagan saw the way things should go and turned the situation in the right direction...
...good offense. To the outside world, the result has often looked more offensive than defensive. Gorbachev and Akhromeyev tried to convince Crowe that something fundamental has changed. "Nonoffensive defense" is a key part of the vocabulary of Soviet "new thinking," and it was a major theme of Crowe's tour. The U.S.S.R. would launch its missiles, he was told, only in retaliation, never in a first strike. Near Minsk he observed an armored unit practice "tactical withdrawal" (i.e., retreat) in response to an enemy attack. At the Voroshilov General Staff Academy in Moscow, where senior officers play war games...
...native of Hoboken, N.J., but a resident of Placentia, Calif., Chang is supervised on tour (17 months, $533,000) by his mother Betty, who, like her husband Joe, is a chemist. She prefers the chemists' word stabilized, saying, "I think that I stabilize him. I hope my presence makes him comfortable." Chang describes his calm manner on and off the court as a residue of his Christian faith, though he does not dispute those who detect some Oriental mystery. "I guess that could be appropriate. I am a quiet person and do not show much emotion. My hobby is fishing...