Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The euphoria of a week ago, when the popular movement to end 41 years of orthodox Communist rule brought down the old hard-line leadership, appeared to have been replaced by anger that the Communists were reneging on promises of reform.
LOOKING at the condition of the inner cities, the environment, the infrastructure and education in this country, it seems as if the United States has just been through a war.
Since the early 1940s the United States has been fighting authoritarianism around the world. During the '30s, before America embraced its role as a major player in world affairs, the shadow of repressive governments spread over much of the planet: Hitler and his Nazis controlled Germany; Italy was fascist; Stalin...
Certainly this has much to do with the vision and talent of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in spreading his ideas of perestroika and glasnost. And the United States has not always pursued its foreign policy goals in a noble and ethical way. But the part played by the United...
The recent events in Eastern Europe--the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the Solidarity government in Poland, the disintegration of Hungarian Communist Party--have validated the trillions of dollars spent in the long and costly struggle in which the United States has been engaged since World War II.