Word: victors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Perched on a platform high above the cigar rollers, the lector (who earned the then exorbitant salary of $80 a week) would usually spend two hours in the morning reading newspapers and periodicals. After a hearty lunch, he would resume in the afternoon with the classics. The works of Victor Hugo, Cervantes, Emile Zola, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Shakespeare were all eagerly absorbed...
Last year, however, the Ziemans' eldest daughter Galina, 26, was allowed to move to the U.S. with her husband Victor Khatutsky. The couple now live in Brighton, Mass., with their 2 1/2-year-old daughter Anna. Vera's eyes sparkle when she talks of being reunited with her sister and starting a new life in the West. "I want to sing in a choir," she says. "And I'd like a dog. Our apartment here is too small for one." But beneath her infectious optimism dwells an ever present anxiety. "It's very hard for me here," Vera Zieman says quietly. "Sometimes...
...Karpov. "There is no common ground, no convergence. The important areas are those where we differ." The polemical tone continued for much of the round. On a number of occasions Karpov launched into philippics on the sins of the U.S. Tower would reply with low-key sarcasm, "Thank you, Victor. We subscribe completely to your characterization of the American position. Now let's get down to business...
During a long conversation over lunch, Kampelman said to Karpov, "Look, Victor, I don't know if you know what 'wiggle room' means." He pointed to his shoe. "It means room for the toe to move around in. At this moment I have no wiggle room. None. That's because you're handling these negotiations badly. You are desperately eager to have us show you wiggle room ((on SDI)), but I can't do it. I don't even want to ask for it back in Washington. However, if you can come up with significant reductions -- not promises, but realities...
...days of yore the defeated general would have handed over his sword and scabbard on the field of battle. In France last week, the vanquished paid homage to the victor during a tense nine-minute ceremony in a brocaded Louis XV-style study of the Elysee Palace, in which Jacques Chirac tendered his resignation as Premier to the adversary who had beaten him at the polls two days before: re-elected President Francois Mitterrand. Then Mitterrand got cracking. Over the next 48 hours he gave France a new Premier, moderate Socialist Michel Rocard; a new 26-member Cabinet that includes...