Word: yes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, if "Taking Back the Night" is about "saying no"--to rape, to harassment, to the psychological and physical abuse of women--it is also about saying "YES." At "Take Back the Night" we do more than decry violence against women; we claim our right to be ourselves--on our own initiative, with our own strength. We don't need to go running to someone else's arms and we don't need, as the Pitches' closing lullaby suggests, to go to sleep. We need to wake up--NOW. Carloyn Greaves '86-7 Alison Rader...
...nuclear weapons on their soil, some Europeans may be reminded of Oscar Wilde's dictum: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." To the West's discomfort, Gorbachev is zestfully playing a role no previous Soviet leader has essayed: the man who keeps saying yes. The General Secretary first astonished NATO last month by accepting Reagan's zero-option proposal to scrap all intermediate-range Soviet and American nuclear missiles in Europe, and then by agreeing, at least in principle, to on-site inspection to make sure the missiles are gone. When the Western nations pointed...
...than reassured. Leaving the session, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti admitted "there is fear of global denuclearization without adequate countermeasures," although his government made it plain that it supported the new approach. A French TV news analyst summed up a strong current of opinion in his country: "Zero option, yes. Double zero and triple zero, no." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, during her visit to Moscow three weeks ago, told Gorbachev that a "world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us." Canadian Foreign Minister Joe Clark said he had found "obvious differences...
Largely for these reasons, the Reagan Administration was in something of a quandary about how to react. Having originally proposed the zero option in 1981 and hung tough on it through '82 and '83, the Administration felt it could not say no now that Gorbachev was finally saying yes...
...time I complimented him on his silk tie and he said, 'Oh yes, I bought it in Paris on sale for $200,'" Leslie recalls. "Another time he came in to my office and decided to take my table and my typewriter for his own use. He didn't need them, that was done purely as a bullying thing...