Word: talks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old English teacher in a small town not far from Shanghai on China's eastern coast. He could have taken Russian in college but chose English because "there is no one to talk to in Russian and no one interested in learning it." Bi speaks English so well that only a careful listener might guess that it is his second language. He pays particular attention to his consonants, and the effect is riveting. It seems that everything he says has been carefully weighed and thought...
...that has claimed some 70,000 lives, there are no eternal optimists left in El Salvador. Blind hope went out of fashion after then President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with failure in three meetings with the leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Since the last talks in 1987, the two sides have dug in with renewed determination. Now, four months after Alfredo Cristiani, 41, succeeded Duarte as President, there is new talk of reconciliation. Representatives of the government and the F.M.L.N. met two weeks ago in Mexico City to develop a framework for future dialogue. The most...
Cristiani and Joaquin Villalobos, 38, the F.M.L.N.'s top comandante, agreed to talk with TIME separately last week about the prospects for peace. Though they clearly remain divided on important issues, each man spoke without rancor of his enemy and acknowledged that a fight to the end is no longer feasible. "It's time to look for an agreement and forget about ((past)) accusations," said Cristiani. Villalobos, in turn, conceded that a prolonged war "no longer corresponds to the reality of the world. If a revolutionary asked me today what to do, I would say, 'Conspire to launch a short...
...oddly enough, arms control seemed almost peripheral in the wide-ranging talks Shevardnadze had with President Bush at the White House and with Secretary of State James Baker during two days amid the majestic scenery of Jackson Hole in Wyoming's Teton mountains. They agreed to hold a summit in late spring in the U.S. But the most astonishing talk concerned the Soviet Union's internal troubles, an unheard-of topic for superpower discussion...
...clear he was in search of American technical know-how for the ailing Soviet economy. Together with several U.S. and Soviet economists, the pair chewed over such specifics as ruble convertibility and Soviet Treasury bonds. "There is a change in the psychology of how they are prepared to talk about themselves and in their attitude toward us," said a Baker aide. "There is a degree of trust emerging...