Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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If President F.W. de Klerk is getting jittery, he doesn't show it. In last week's by-election in the Natal district of Umlazi, his ruling National Party barely retained a safe seat against a strong showing by the Conservative Party. Undeterred, the President announced another move, guaranteed to...
The son of a gynecologist on Chicago's North Shore, Turow inherited ambition early: "I grew up with a very successful father, whose success I knew I'd be expected to emulate." His early years were spent in what he describes as "a nouveau-riche Jewish ghetto" filled with returned...
After winning the leadership of the Russian Federation last week, Yeltsin said he intended to set aside personal animosities and build relations with Gorbachev, "not on confrontation but on a businesslike basis." Already in Canada, Gorbachev responded that he thought he could work with Yeltsin if he was willing to...
Like a married couple facing tough times, Bush and Gorbachev seem determined to make the relationship work despite their difficulties. After wrestling for two days with intractable problems, the two Presidents simply set their differences aside and exchanged signatures on a variety of halfway measures. When their negotiators got hung...
This time nobody could pretend that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were determining the future of the world. That is, frankly, beyond their control. There was a sense in Washington of the leaders' looking over their shoulders -- to Bonn, where Helmut Kohl is marching Germany toward unification; to Moscow, where...