Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Otherwise, the year was consumed with the old war-and-death business. Afghanistan enters the year as a prisoner of its "liberating" neighbor; Iran and Iraq close the year at each other's throats. In between, Cambodians are starved out of existence; terrorists go about murdering 80 or more in Bologna, and a mere four outside a Paris synagogue. In Turkey, political violence kills 2,000; in El Salvador, more than 9,000 die in that country's torment. All this on top of natural disasters: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington State; one earthquake in Algeria kills...
...inflation rate of 18% that drops to a hardly bearable 12.7% as the year ends. February is also the month when the U.S. hockey team's victory over the Soviets ignites national pride. But in April the U.S. boycotts the Summer Olympic Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In May Cuban refugees flee Castro, and the U.S. greets them at first with an "open arms" policy, then a state of emergency in Florida, then a closing of the open arms?the entire pilgrimage eventually capped off with riots at Eglin Air Force
...legitimate negotiations that are aimed at reducing the strategic nuclear weapons in the world. I just think you cannot sit down at the negotiating table and ignore the policies of the Soviet Union, when you're talking disarmament, while they're carrying on as they are in Afghanistan and Africa and so forth...
Like factory and office workers, farmers suffered through a year of upheaval. Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter suspended shipment of $2.6 billion worth of corn, wheat and soybeans to the Soviet Union. Farm prices immediately collapsed, with the price of corn falling by 10% within three days of trading, the price of soybeans by 8% and that of wheat by 9%. Many farmers suffered a second disaster when a searing summer heat wave and drought scorched crops and pasture lands from Texas to North Dakota. The temperature in Dallas was over 100° for 53 days...
...story more than for stories whose origins are honestly stated. The leaker always has some self-serving motive, good or bad, but gets off scot-free while accomplishing his purpose. Think of how often in the past year "well informed" newspaper stories about policy debates over Iran, Afghanistan or Iraq have implied that National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Pentagon are decisive and tough, while the State Department is waffling and weak-kneed...