Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this direction last week by urging Iran to recognize the Soviet Union as by far its greatest threat. To win respect and influence throughout the Muslim world, he could lean on Israel to settle the Palestinian problem. He also could push harder for American energy independence, which would free the U.S. from OPEC blackmail. At the same time, he could plan on eventually resuming his campaign for Senate approval of the SALT II pact, for stabilization of the superpowers' strategic capabilities would benefit the U.S. as well as the Soviet Union, and the longer that treaty is delayed, the more...
Maybe it is that way when true danger at last manifests itself. Free people are often the last to admit and believe that catastrophe can strike. And then when they do believe trouble is on them, they do not want to talk about their fears until they have...
...Gulag had long enraged the Soviet leaders. But they had been reluctant to arrest so famous a dissident for fear of jeopardizing the advantages of détente, including trade with the U.S. After the invasion of Afghanistan and Washington's punitive embargoes, the Soviets felt free to put Sakharov away. As one top State Department analyst explained the arrest: "Moscow figured there wasn't much more to lose because there was nothing much more we could do to them." The Soviet action was a direct rebuke to President Carter, who had written Sakharov a letter of personal...
...second week in a row, Italy's Communist Party daily L'Unità flayed Moscow with a front-page attack on its policies. The arrest and internal exile of Dissident Andrei Sakharov, said the paper, "demonstrated an inability to resolve in tolerant terms and free confrontation tensions affecting Soviet society " A few days earlier, L'Unità had printed the charge of Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was "an open violation of the principles of national independence and sovereignty." France's Communist daily L'Humamté also scored the arrest...
...affable, jowly countenance has earned him the nickname "Smiler" Soames among Rhodesians. But the lordly Governor of Britain's last African colony has little cause for buoyancy these days. He bears responsibility for running "free and fair" elections to Zimbabwe Rhodesia's new, 100-member House of Assembly; yet many of the parties have threatened to withdraw from the balloting. He also has to hold together a shaky cease-fire amid continuing violence...