Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's speeches during last fall's campaign. Brezhnev also tossed out a variety of negotiating ideas that Secretary of State Alexander Haig judged "new and remarkable." Among them: a hint that the Soviets might consider expanding an existing agreement under which NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries have been notifying each other of major troop movements near the European zonal border, to cover military maneuvers within the U.S.S.R. as far east as the Urals...
...send in the Red Army, they will have created a nightmare that will make Afghanistan look like a tea party." The Soviets still have 55 divisions poised within striking distance of Poland. While there is no sign that they have stepped up their state of readiness, the upcoming Warsaw Pact winter maneuvers could serve as a cover for a Soviet move. There seems little chance of intervention, however, before the Soviet Party Congress in Moscow later this month...
...Britain's participation in the European Community. We've had our quarrels with Europe. They were justifiable. I believe we are through them. Who would rejoice if Britain came out? The Warsaw Pact countries. They would have their tight alliance and would see that the democracies could not work together in peace. We can and we do. Of course, there will be difficult times-the closer the family is, the more virulent the quarrels...
...more than the government-notably by agreeing to work every fourth Saturday. In effect, that abrogated a guarantee of work-free Saturdays, which the government had promised in last summer's historic strike settlement. Solidarity's national commission wrangled for eleven hours before voting to accept the pact, which the final union communiqué coldly described as "falling far short of expectations...
Christopher Randolphe plays an excellent Faustus, and is best in this scene as the enthusiastic and heedless seeker of gratification who signs a blood pact with the devil, turning over his soul in return for 24 years of all-power and all-knowledge. Strutting about the stage in a black medieval scholar's cloak over a tuxedo, Randolphe makes a powerful spector, and the audience can immediately grasp the depth of Faustus' commitment to his pact...