Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev showed the blunt candor that has distinguished his domestic efforts at economic reform. In his talk with news executives, he referred to the Soviet Union as the "world's second ranking power." The remark, which surprised many Westerners in the audience, was consistent with the message he has been stressing at home: that the Soviet Union must squarely face up to the problems in its economic system. Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov later told TIME that it was the first time Gorbachev had put his country's runner-up status so bluntly. Quipped Gerasimov: "He conceded -- to Japan...
...perturbed at them for this remark because according to the law one should not hold insane people accountable for their actions. But I did feel compelled to respond...
...remark was a challenge to Duarte, who has insisted that the returning exiles, who are allies of the Marxist F.M.L.N. guerrillas, must "define themselves" if they want to take part in Salvadoran politics again. If they refuse to accept the government's amnesty offers and to thereby renounce the F.M.L.N. and violence, they can be charged with complicity in future guerrilla activities. Said another returning exile, Guillermo Manuel Ungo of the National Revolutionary Movement: "I don't think most people realize the change that the F.M.L.N. has undergone. It has learned that this war is going to be won through...
...part. "The experience of the last several months has made all of us a bit wiser," he said. Reminded by reporters of his pledge after Bork's rejection to give the Senate a nominee they would "object to just as much," Reagan shrugged it off as a "facetious remark" made at a partisan gathering...
Reagan's tepid and grudging reactions -- reluctant and uncomprehending -- confirmed a suspicion in many minds that Reagan, a lame duck with 15 months to go in his second term, was presiding over an Administration bereft of ideas and energy. It was a custom a generation ago for people to remark, "Well, we must trust the President in that decision -- he has more information about it than we do." No one says that in the second term of Ronald Reagan. In fact, one unstated anxiety during the stock-market crash was that Reagan would inadvertently say something to make the panic...