Word: ares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A critical moment in the transformation of U.S.-Soviet relations came on Nov. 16, just over two weeks before the meeting in the Med. That was the day Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney announced that because the Warsaw Pact was becoming "a very different animal," the U.S. could reduce its...
The atmospherics and rhetoric along the Potomac became more appreciative during the summer, but what Marxists (there are still a few left in Moscow) call the "objective realities" of U.S. policy remained pretty much unchanged. A few days before the Pentagon cuts, an adviser to Gorbachev seemed to be expressing...
The question arises because, beneath the level of day-to-day politicking, conservatives are a heterogeneous lot. We conservatives mock liberals for playing coalition politics with the federal treasury. But our own coalition, although we don't glue it together with tax dollars, is as diverse as theirs.
If the right stands together on social issues, it risks falling together on the environment. Though conservatives and conservation are linguistically related words, most of the former have given the latter scant thought. For a brief moment ten years ago, we geared up to argue that one of the reasons...
Mikhail Gorbachev may yet pull everybody back to square one, by changing his mind or getting the sack. Even if he stays on his present course, he will remain the ruler of a big country with large arsenals. There is enough history ahead for all but the most jaded. Once...