Word: western
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Loosening restrictions on Soviet citizens' access to foreign currencies is not just another glasnost gambit. If the Soviet Union hopes to feed itself, it must find ways of getting its moribund farming sector to perform better. Notes a senior Western diplomat: "If they could import goods from a Sears catalog, that might be a pretty good incentive...
MICKEY Leland was found Sunday on a desolate mountainside in western Ethiopia, near the Sudanese border. Surrounded by the wreckage of the two-engine plane lies the body of the Texas representative. Not a typical memorial to a politician. But, as the ever-so-trite saying goes, he was not your typical politician...
...kill Colonel Higgins unless Obeid was released. Israeli Cabinet officials convened an emergency meeting to formulate a counteroffer. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin proposed an exchange of Obeid and the estimated 150 Lebanese Shi'ites held in Israeli prisons for the release of the three Israeli soldiers and all the Western hostages...
...first reports of Higgins' murder, the President cut short a Western- states speechmaking trip to return to Washington. He quickly conveyed his sorrow and outrage in a phone call to Higgins' wife Robin, a Marine public affairs officer. But throughout the week Bush was careful to apply a lesson that had been painfully learned by Jimmy Carter: never let a hostage crisis appear to consume the presidency. The President went to unusual lengths to create what might be called a mood of concerned normalcy, acting as host at a barbecue for members of Congress, playing tennis, even attending a ball...
While Iranian "moderates" have a way of disappointing Western expectations, Rafsanjani is reportedly convinced that Iran failed to win its costly war with Iraq because of its international isolation, which deprived the country of desperately needed military technology and hardware. In a speech Friday, the new Iranian President was remarkably conciliatory: "I tell the White House, the problem of Lebanon has solutions, the freeing of the hostages has solutions, reasonable, prudent solutions." Rafsanjani offered: "Come let us approach the problem reasonably. We too will help solve the problems there...