Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later he led a protest strike and was jailed twice. When the intifadeh caught fire, he moved to the front line of the shabab, the young militants who keep the rebellion alight. Last winter the Israeli authorities threatened to demolish his family's home if he did not turn himself in. He complied and spent 8 1/2 months under administrative detention. At one point, he and two of his brothers shared a tent in the harsh desert camp at Ketziot...
Still, it is part of Gorbachev's genius that he not only gets credit for saying da -- after decades of nyets coming out of Moscow -- but he also has been able to turn the tables on the U.S., making American diplomacy seem reactive, unimaginative, even recalcitrant. Mired in "old thinking," the U.S. has been on the defensive at the U.N. of late, especially in the wake of Secretary of State George Shultz's refusal to grant a visa that would have permitted Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat to address the world body at its headquarters on the East River...
...meet some of the expectations of the poor, who form the P.P.P.'s main constituency. In the raucous streets of Rawalpindi following her elevation, those hopes were ballooning beyond reality. Explained a P.P.P. election worker: "We've been denied everything for the past eleven years. Now it's our turn to get a share...
...murmur echoed in the vaulted chamber of the Grand Kremlin Palace. From his front-row seat on the dais, President Mikhail Gorbachev enjoyed an unobstructed view of the extraordinary scene, but many of the 1,376 deputies at last week's session of the Supreme Soviet were forced to turn their heads to see what was going on -- not on the podium but in their midst. A motion to approve major changes in the constitution had just been put to a vote, but the show of hands was not unanimous. "Could I ask for a count of those voting against...
Strategic advantage can vanish quickly as the Soviets steal or copy military technology and turn it against its inventors. McNamara suggests that "it takes the Soviets on the average only four years to catch up" to U.S. advances -- and then the weapons may pose more of a threat to Americans than to the Soviets...