Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talked. How do you put your feet up when the deck beneath you is trembling and the winds are howling, in Marsaxlokk Bay and throughout the tattered Soviet empire? This first Bush-Gorbachev summit, which the American President initially proposed as a way to restart the becalmed U.S.-Soviet relationship, was now also the first to take place in the uncertain new world ushered in by the upheavals shaking Eastern Europe. And if this meeting was to be a step in shaping the future, there could be no more appropriate setting than at sea, even a sea as wild...
Since independence in 1946, the Philippines has struggled with its complex love-hate, parent-child relationship with America. Already accused by nationalists of being an American lackey, Aquino had shrewdly kept her silence -- and "my options open" -- in the matter of renewing the leases on Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base, two of the largest U.S. installations in the world. Now that she has shown herself dependent on U.S. forces there, Aquino may be hopelessly compromised when negotiations on renewing the leases begin shortly. Says a Filipino intelligence officer: "Let's not even talk about the U.S. bases...
...Philippines is still dependent on the United States," says Karnow. "What's called a 'neocolonial relationship' or 'a special relationship' is still there." The rebels have seized on the issue and are holding Ambassador Platt "personally responsible" for their defeat and calling the U.S. move "an act of aggression against the sovereign Filipino people...
...Willy's son Biff, starts out less strongly than does O'Keefe and never seems quite settled in his character's exchanges with his brother Happy (John Ducey). But Javerbaum is most convincing when it counts, and scenes between Willy and Biff convey all the stifling agony of their relationship. Javerbaum is also especially skillful in handling Biff's striking shift from a hopeful high school football hero to a disillusioned, directionless 34-year-old who feels cheated by his father's hypocritical expectations...
...Obviously Harvard's relationship as an institution with the city of Cambridge and Boston is a sensitive one," Miller says. "We try to be sensitive to the kids applying from those [area] schools...