Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both provisions are amendments to defense authorization bills. The more workable and sensible Senate version is likely to prevail. Nevertheless, it gives to the military a far greater role than it wanted in drug interdiction. The Pentagon, eager to avoid the nasty work altogether, yielded to pressure . from the White House to accept it. One objection: law enforcement is traditionally a civilian function in a democracy. The military also contends that the costs would be high, the peripheral training from the new duties would not be relevant to preparing for war, and the Air Force does not have the right...
There will be few fireworks over what summiteers call "regional issues." Besides its Afghan pullout, the Kremlin is eager to wind down other conflicts that are a drain on its treasury, particularly those in Angola, Ethiopia and Kampuchea. In the area of humanitarian concerns, U.S. complaints are likely to be pro forma. Jewish emigration, one barometer of Moscow's human rights record, is now high. In April, 1,086 Soviet Jews emigrated, the biggest monthly total since...
...excitement by announcing a unilateral withdrawal of some Soviet troops -- perhaps as many as 75,000 -- from Eastern Europe. Such a move would be consistent with the Soviets' vigorous courtship of Western Europe. As the Soviet Ambassador to West Germany, Yuli Kvitsinsky, put it last week, the Kremlin is eager to replace "the image of the enemy" with "the image of the friend...
Among the unresolved details: when Noriega would resign and where he would go if he left Panama. With both sides eager to save face, one prospect was that Noriega would remain in the country a while longer, then emigrate for an extended period before returning home to settle...
Consider the case of Garth Conlan, a vegetable and strawberry grower in Castroville, Calif., who walked into a Wells Fargo branch in 1981 to borrow $3 million. The bankers, eager for business, approved the loan in 48 hours, Conlan's attorneys say. Yet two years later, when Wells Fargo decided that losses from Conlan's 1,505-acre farm exceeded the limit in the loan contract, the bank refused to lend him more money and grabbed $120,000 from another of his accounts to pay off the debt. Those moves forced him into bankruptcy, his attorneys say. So the farmer...