Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow's ties to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the continuing crackdown on freedoms in Poland. Shultz was prepared even to broach the subject of human rights in the Soviet Union, according to a senior White House official, primarily to satisfy various East European constituencies that take note of such frequently hopeless exchanges. Said a U.S. diplomat: "We will have our say, and Gromyko will just have to listen." The specific U.S. objective that Shultz wanted to emphasize most strongly was Soviet agreement on further, regular meetings between the two sides at the ministerial level. These would cover...
While Western analysts agree that the succession crisis is far from resolved, they point out that the Kremlin's options are limited. Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, and others note that any aspirant for the top Soviet leadership post must be both a full member of the Politburo and a secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, which comprises more than 300 members. The importance of having those two titles became clear when Andropov was hastily made a party secretary as a prelude to assuming the top job. The only...
...party at the Washington Hilton last Friday night was a grand bash. Hundreds of guests mingled convivially, munching on fried chicken, hand-carved roast beef and ham. As the good spirit, and good spirits, flowed, the only odd note was the cause of the celebration: Government employees, past and present, were saluting the abolition of their agency, the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...about Bogart, Naipaul went to Venezuela to look up his first character. He leaves his Caracas hotel one morning to visit the old man in his village in the Orinoco delta. They have a pleasant lunch, but when Naipaul returns to Caracas he finds a telegram from Bogart, a note he had missed that morning, which asks him to cancel his visit. Maybe it should have been a signal to Naipaul that the thousands of air-miles and the hundreds of pages which have come between him and the room at the BBC form an unbridgeable...
ABOUT TWO WEEKS ago, many Seattlites received a political plea for support on behalf of Booth Gardner a Democrat hopeful for the governor hip. This short note, courteously addressed. "Dear Friend of Senator Jackson,' stated that the Senator had originally "encouraged" Gardner to run, and was fully behind his assault on the Governor's chair. This endorsement was highly unusual; Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson was never one to become overly involved in local election, the more so after his death more than a year...