Word: armes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contras and the Cambodian guerrillas are all foot soldiers of an American policy whose architect has left office -- the Reagan Doctrine. To punish Leonid Brezhnev for fomenting trouble in the Third World back in the 1970s, Ronald Reagan launched a global counteroffensive in the 1980s. By helping to arm virtually any group aiming to topple one of the Kremlin's clients, Reagan gave new force to the old U.S. strategy of "containing" Soviet expansionism...
...Funnel did not do nearly as much damage tomy body as did my dear friends at UHS--UniversityHell Services. I entered Stillman Infirmary onesunny April day an innocent 18-year-old withstomach pains. I left 10 pounds lighter with moretrack marks in my arm than you'd find on anyjunkie...
...treated like an inanimate object.Stick out your arm. Open your mouth. Bend over. Noone told me what the tests were for, what theresults were or what they thought might be thecause of my aching stomach...
...Commencement exercises today, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence and other leading figures have pledged to wear white arm bands in mourning for fallen students in China...
...impossible to tell, from page to page, just how this improbable hero will perform his role, not only for the nervous intelligence officers monitoring his every move but for the readers as well. With scarcely an intimation of sex, no violence and not a side arm visible, Le Carre has again managed to construct a plot of commanding suspense. Never before has he so successfully merged his narrative and contemplative gifts. The Russia House is both afire and thought provoking, a thriller that demands a second reading as a treatise on our times...