Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peace? It's awful!" Though nuclear protests elsewhere in Europe and in the U.S. have mostly been orderly, an aide who helped draft the U.N. speech says that Reagan "wanted to address the unilateral, accusatory tone of some of the peace groups. He is trying to say, 'Wake up, fellas. The Soviets aren't exactly the good guys. Take some of your petitions to Moscow.' " Thus Reagan firmly pointed out to the disarmament conference that "in Moscow, banners are scuttled, buttons are snatched and demonstrators arrested when even a few people dare to speak about their...
...roof looks even worse than everyone else. The car is too crowded, so instead of leading him inside, we take some rope from the trunk and tie him to the top. With all the traffic, we weren't moving very fast, and he didn't wake up for about 200 feet, 20 minutes later...
Foreign correspondents covering the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last week had their problems. Those reporting from the Israeli side were told little and saw less. In Lebanon, journalists had a surprising amount of freedom, but at a high cost. "The machine-gun and antiaircraft fire is your 5 a.m. wake-up call," said Tim McNulty, a Middle East correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. "It's been a week of sustained fear, and it doesn't look like it will get any better." Said Thomas Baldwin of the Associated Press: "In Beirut it's a risk just...
...Carlos Fuentes at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.: "Nationalism represents a profound value for Latin Americans simply because of the fact that our nationhood is still in question. In New York, Paris or London, no one loses sleep asking themselves whether the nation exists. In Latin America you can wake up and find that the nation s no longer there, usurped by a military junta, a multinational corporation or an American ambassador surrounded by a jevy of technical advisers. That the junta in Buenos Aires, acting under the impression that it had been given the green light by the [Reagan...
...scale strike against P.L.O. bases in Lebanon. Said Yitzhak Moda'i, an Israeli minister without portfolio: "Prolonged restraint costs too much. We must strike at the terrorist" Indeed even before Agrov was shot, Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir had called for "complete elimination of the P.L.O. In the wake of the Argov assassination attempt, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry declared that the ten-month-old cease-fire the was being "permanently violated" by P.L.O...