Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old premier becomes party leader with a revamped Politburo trimmed of aging apparatchiks. Imre Pozsgay, a leading advocate of reform, and Reszo Nyers, the father of Hungary's economic restructuring in the 1960s who was dropped from the Politburo in 1972, were appointed to the ruling body...
...novel tells the story of David and Harriet, whom Lessing describes as "conservative, old-fashioned," in the midst of the rebellion of the 1960s. David and Harriet are "made for each other," a fact Lessing makes abundantly clear. The first sentence of the novel informs us that the moment they met, they "knew that this was what they had been waiting...
...late as the 1960s, urban ghettos were communities unto themselves, featuring a vertical integration of the different segments of the Black urban population. Yet basic changes in the American economy have resulted in an exodus of the working- and middle- Blacks, Wilson argues. The ghettos of the 1980s are concentrated areas of extreme poverty isolated from mainstream social institutions...
...defeat that will begin this week to wend its way through the rugged passes of the Hindu Kush, north toward home along the Salang Highway, which stretches from Kabul to the Soviet border. The road was a "gift" from the U.S.S.R. to the people of Afghanistan in the 1960s. Western experts noted at the time that it would make an ideal invasion route. So it did in 1979, when the Kremlin decided to extend "fraternal assistance" to the beleaguered Afghan Communist regime. Soon the highway will prove useful once again, as the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan, whom...
Ever since the pioneering transplant operations of the 1960s, the chief obstacle to the full recovery of transplant patients has been the immune system's xenophobic zeal to destroy anything that is foreign to the body. Once the alien threat has been identified, agents known as helper T cells unleash the powerful immune response that attacks grafted tissue. During the 1970s, physicians found that they could minimize this reaction by more closely matching the MHC proteins, or immunological "dog tags," of a donor with those of the recipient. Even so, they could not completely eliminate the rejection response. To make...