Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...threat to the Soviet Union since it forcibly formed the East bloc after World War II. Indeed, events there have, in a sense, stripped the clothes right off the empire. Walesa and his colleagues in the Solidarity leadership know that they are, as it were, condemned to Communism; their basic goal is not to reject the system but to make it work better...
...hostages remain in Iran. Ironically, no one sounded more eager to send the Americans home last week than I.R.P. Leader Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, who had previously been instrumental in prolonging the crisis. Said Beheshti: "The U.S. has to a large extent met our demands. There is now no basic catch in reaching a final solution...
...have to react by further building up its military capability." He won support for this even from the French. In a strong communique deliberately left unspecific to avoid provoking Moscow, the NATO foreign ministers warned that detente "could not survive if the Soviet Union were again to violate the basic rights of any state to territorial integrity and independence. Poland should be free to decide its own future...
Part of the bad blood is a basic personality clash. Rabin is a moody, taciturn introvert who is visibly uncomfortable with crowds. Peres is an outgoing gladhander who exudes an easy charm and tosses off aphorisms in at least four languages. Their public antagonism dates back to the aftermath of the 1973 Middle East war, when the two emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders. A career soldier for 27 years, Rabin was a former chief of staff who had made his mark with patient staff planning; he enjoyed the support of the Labor Party...
...beloved onomatopoetics of yesteryear, redolent of childhood's long, rainy Sunday afternoons, cannot help recalling that the comics were the popular art that most radically stylized experience. Sometimes artfully, more often not, they reduced it to its basic components of violence, disgust, fear, heroics and sometimes laughter. From their beginnings, the comics and the movies have lived together symbolically; there is scarcely a major comic-page figure who has not been reincarnated on the screen, or a comic strip that has not been influenced by the way movie directors frame and compose scenes. Yet the transitions from one medium...