Word: impromptue
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...German capital next week. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher set forth her position in the House of Commons; in Rome, the Pope outlined his in an address to the Vatican diplomatic corps. With pressure building on all sides, President Reagan defended his record on arms control at an impromptu press conference and held a publicized meeting the next day with his chief negotiators. "Arms control is the next big issue," said a senior White House aide. "It has to be faced." If anything, he was understating the case...
...proposal also caused alarm among businessmen who oppose the current structure of corporate taxation. Paul Huard, a vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, yesterday called the president's impromptu idea "a little drastic and certainly not likely to happen soon...
...deferential chat with sixth-term Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 81. In the House, children crawled around the floor and squalled lustily as their parents took the oath of office. Bluegrass music twanged through the Rayburn Office Building, where Freshman Democrat Bob Wise of West Virginia staged an impromptu folk dance...
...crowd of 100 impromptu guerrillas, the cry went up: "Let's go to the Interstate! Let's go to the Interstate!" The young blacks jogged toward Interstate 95, but Miami police cut them off, firing bullets overhead and tear gas. Some rioters made it to the expressway anyway. As they threw stones at panicked motorists, other blacks frantically tried to warn drivers away from the assault zone...
...minimize the importance of a possible shift in the Soviet position. He said in Paris after a meeting with President François Mitterrand that even if the Soviets made a proposal along the lines now hinted at, it would not be "a very interesting proposition." During an impromptu news conference, President Reagan noted that the ideas floated by the Soviets were not "adequate" and would "leave us at a considerable disadvantage...