Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie mogul. He is a soft-spoken man who clearly lacks the bravura of his former boss, producer Samuel Goldwyn, for whom Davis once worked as an office boy and press agent. But Davis is a man in a hurry. He leapfrogged to the top of Gulf & Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed Paramount Communications the day before he launched his bid for Time...
...that are sweeping the Communist world. But in ordering the bloody suppression of the democracy movement, the government lost much of its authority, leaving itself isolated and condemned at home and abroad. There are even fears that Chinese Communism may be reaching backward for a discredited tool. Warned a Western diplomat: "Everything that has gone on has been preparation for Stalinist terror. Deng Xiaoping is an old Communist who , believes that when you don't observe party discipline, you are dead...
...then the arrests had started. All over Beijing, Chinese who had Western friends began to disappear, either into hiding or, in increasing numbers, into jails. In one incident opposite the foreign-community compound of Qijiayuan, some 30 Chinese were taken in by security forces. In another part of town, 28 more were led away. "It is the night of the long knives," said a Western diplomat. The total in custody at week...
...inhabited by diplomats who had the previous night disrupted what appeared to be preparations for a surreptitious execution of young Chinese men. "What they did in the foreign compound," said this intelligence expert, "was to attempt to drive out every foreign eye so they can go about their executions." Western photographers and television crews have been roughed...
...capital construction and the space program. He promised to reduce next year's defense budget 14% and disclosed that Moscow spent considerably more on the military than many of the Deputies suspected: about $130 billion a year, or some 9% of the Soviet Union's gross national product. Western leaders had long sought such an admission, but analysts insist that Gorbachev is still not leveling about defense layouts. Most think the military budget consumes somewhere between 12% and 16% of the country's GNP, and a few surmises go even higher. But Gorbachev's major concern remained his economic- reform...