Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indonesian troops went in. With South Vietnam having collapsed only eight months earlier, Washington wasn't about to see another Asian domino fall to the communists. The murder and mayhem wrought by the Indonesian forces may have been distasteful, but Indonesia had been the anchor of Western interests in Asia. So East Timor had to wait for the end of the Cold War and then some before democracy could be allowed to take its course...
...observers believe that Hutchison is an arm of the P.L.A. The publicly held firm manages 19 ports in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Shipping experts consider the company among the world's finest. And, says Joseph Cornelison, the commission's deputy administrator, "we'll control the timing of ships going in and out of Hutchison's ports." Moreover, under the treaty, U.S. Navy ships will keep their privilege of cutting to the front of the line of vessels waiting to traverse the canal...
...revolutionary force and established the Bolshevik Party throughout the government. Bolshevik Russia became an example to Marxist revolutionaries everywhere and energized nationalist reactionaries, of whom the most important was Adolf Hitler. Hitler's ideological war on the Soviet Union devastated Europe. After Lenin's death, his followers in Europe, Asia and Africa created other Bolshevik regimes that propagated regional wars, fostered terrorism and destroyed economies. Not until 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, was Lenin's malign influence definitively reversed. Its aftereffects will persist into the 3rd millennium. --John Keegan, historian...
Police: bobby (Britain), garda (Ireland), Mountie (Canada), police wallah (South Asia...
...countries aim to expand cooperation on regional security issues such as North Korea and to oppose U.S. attempts to extend its missile defense umbrella to its allies in Asia. "Both countries are concerned about the threat of internal disintegration, and that adds to the incentive to cooperate," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "And both want to stop the world becoming a playground for the U.S. But centuries of mutual suspicion and hostility tend to make such alliances between them shortlived." Moscow and Beijing are expected to conclude a deal this week in which Russia will sell a large number...