Word: progress
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most fundamentally, the cold war would never have ended if Gorbachev had not moved the Soviet Union away from totalitarianism, and Moscow's progress toward full acceptance into the world community of nations would be difficult if not impossible to sustain if it reverted to strong-arm rule...
Other colleagues were less generous. "Stupid," said a fellow officer of Waller's remarks. "Absolutely imbecilic," said another. Soldiers are not supposed to tell such secrets to the enemy. In truth, what Waller said should come as no surprise to anyone who has been tracking the progress of American deployment in the gulf. That he said it, however, was a shocker. Waller's indiscretion signaled to Saddam that the Rubicon may not be crossed on Jan. 15, thereby undercutting Washington's effort to scare him out of Kuwait without a fight...
...future are already well under way. Assisted by about 50 U.S. Army civil-affairs reservists, the - cream of Kuwait's ministerial employees have been meeting quietly in a downtown Washington office building for six weeks. While Finance Minister Khalifa conceived the project and continues to monitor its progress, the day- to-day work is being directed by Fawzi al-Sultan, a Yale-educated Kuwaiti who has been a World Bank executive director since 1984. Every conceivable need is being addressed. Enough material to equip eight hospitals and a score of clinics, for example, is being purchased from U.S. and European...
With so much progress on so many fronts, it was easy to see the offer of aid as a reward for good behavior. Both Baker and Bush were at pains to deny any quid pro quo, especially for Soviet cooperation in the gulf crisis. "None of the measures today are in any sense a payback," Baker insisted, thereby fueling suspicion in the act of disputing it. There was no denying that Soviet cooperation has been essential in keeping the pressure on Iraq -- by voting for sanctions, supporting the United Nations resolution permitting the use of force, and last week delaying...
...greet the day for the first time in my life." His campaign to prevent midday yawns is less successful. He tried stretching out in his office at TIME's Los Angeles bureau one afternoon. Colleagues kept bursting in the door, he grumbles, "unaware that a scientific experiment was in progress...