Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years. He imagines that by the time he retires, he will "assuredly be the one person in all Paris -- perhaps even in all France -- who had stood the longest time in just one place." This suits Jonathan fine. His childhood was disagreeably eventful: both parents disappeared during World War II. As a young man, he was pressured into the army and then into an unsuitable, short-lived marriage. Since then, he has carefully constructed a hermetic existence designed to protect himself from all surprises. His plan works, until the morning he discovers a pigeon staring at him in the hallway...
...most powerful anti-Soviet crusader of the modern era has become its most determined summiteer. "If we have accomplished something," Reagan says in a telephone conversation with TIME from Spaso House, the U.S. Ambassador's residence, "if we have made war more distant, then that is a source of satisfaction." He says it so simply, so matter-of-factly. His manner is still rooted nine time zones west, in the Cornbelt, but his sympathy seems to have shifted east by a continent or two. Reagan is now Gorbachev's hiking buddy around Red Square, his point man as Gorbachev goes...
SPOILS OF WAR. Kate Nelligan shows the dark side of an Auntie Mame-style mom in Michael Weller's off-Broadway memory play, through June...
Duarte's farewell at Ilopango had a sad dignity, but could not disguise the fact that he departed a defeated man. In 1984 the stocky Christian Democrat rode to the presidency on a wave of popular enthusiasm for two of his electoral promises: to bring El Salvador's civil war to an end and to usher in an era of stability. That hope has long since given way to military stalemate, political confusion, social despair and pervasive corruption. When he took office, Duarte was touted by the Reagan Administration as the man who would bring democracy to El Salvador...
...Duarte has had a hand in turning White House policy in El Salvador -- considered the Administration's sole success story in Central America -- into another potential failure, alongside Panama and Nicaragua. U.S. embassy officials in San Salvador continue to insist that Duarte is making slow progress toward ending the war and establishing a democratic system, but other Western diplomats are more pessimistic. "Things are a shambles," says a West European envoy. "The Americans are in for a shock." Even State Department officials concede that the rosy analysis emanating from the U.S. embassy is "dreamwork...