Word: basing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...some political factions. Yet Cheney caught a slap from Philippine President Corazon Aquino. The U.S. Congress had recently cut $96 million from a $481 million military and economic aid package that Aquino apparently considered a precondition for negotiations on renewing U.S. leases to operate the huge Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base. Miffed, she canceled plans to meet Cheney. The Defense Secretary took the snub gracefully but declared that the U.S. will remain in the bases, whose leases expire next year, "only as long as the Philippine people wish it to stay -- and only if the terms negotiated...
...what are the bases protecting? At a media conference in Manila last week, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov asked, "Suppose the bases go tomorrow -- where's the threat?" The Soviets, he insisted, "will not fill the vacuum." American planners are not so sure of that. Subic is strategically situated across the China Sea from Cam Ranh Bay, the former U.S. naval base in Viet Nam, which now berths about 20 Soviet warships...
...under pressure from Moscow, Viet Nam withdrew most of its remaining 26,000 troops from Cambodia (though last week there were reports that several thousand Vietnamese troops and military advisers have since returned). The Soviet Union has also begun reducing its muscle at the former U.S. military and supply base at Cam Ranh Bay. Two weeks ago, the Soviet Foreign Ministry announced that Moscow was removing its MiG- 23s and TU-16 long-range bombers, while Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov said that Soviet air strength at the base would be reduced to five planes...
...Language is the base of society. The alphabet is the base of language," one actor says. The theme of what language is and what role it plays in communication, in society, is vaguely developed in the show. At one point, one of the actors climbs a stool and spraypaints dots, not letters, onto a slideshow image of a crossword puzzle...
...moment, the outlook is promising after so many years of political stalemate. In a major breakthrough, the A.N.C.'s national executive committee announced late in the week, from its base of exile in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, that it will send a delegation to South Africa to begin talks with De Klerk. The date is not yet fixed, but when the meeting takes place it will be the first such consultation ever between representatives of the exiled guerrilla leaders and the government...