Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aftermath of the mission that had come to a bloody and unsuccessful end in an Iranian desert left conflicting feelings high in the ranks of the Administration that planned it. Some State Department officials felt that the whole venture had been badly timed?that it should have been either launched months ago, or postponed until later in the spring, after the U.S. had determined the success of the sanctions imposed by its allies. Said Richard Helms, former CIA chief and onetime Ambassador to Iran: "The timing is peculiar. You spend so much effort getting your allies to take some other...
...Brandt: "We must not be more American than the Americans." As half of a divided nation, West Germany is reluctant to pursue policies that could impair the ability of its citizens to visit their relatives in East Germany or that could once again raise tensions around Berlin. In the aftermath of Bonn's condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for example, Moscow forced cancellation...
That moment was the bitter aftermath of World War II. Exhausted Europe, shaken by the absolute evil Adolf Hitler seemed to represent and by the paralyzing fear of nuclear annihilation, had been delivered not into peace but into the ambiguous stalemate of the cold war. Looking for guidance when most moral values seemed questionable and all ideals suspect, the postwar generation found solace in the austere arms of existentialism. Sartre did not invent the term, and he owed a heavy intellectual debt to more profound European thinkers, notably the opaque German Philosopher Martin Heidegger. But in Sartre's prose...
Picture Prudential Center milling with tens of thousands of people, all happy, some waving balloons or shirts. Now add foil-like capes to hundreds of them, so that it seems the Pru is teeming with muscled Martians. And you have it--the aftermath of the Boston Marathon...
...aftermath of the startlingly rapid collapse of the Shah of Iran, images were evoked of a CIA shackled by an overzealous Congress--the latter being depicted as opportunistically demonstrating its "integrity" to the post-Watergate cynical American public by raking the CIA over the coals. But the "handstied CIA" explanation was seriously challenged when Jesse J. Leaf, former CIA analyst in Iran, revealed that as early as 1973 CIA operatives cautioned Washington about the vulnerability of the Shah (an act which Leaf alleges cost him his job). Furthermore, the eventual resurgence of the opposition to the Shah was predicted outside...