Word: brazens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That shooting in downtown Rome, carried out by a member of the dreaded Red Brigades, was one of three brazen assassinations of Italian judicial officials last week. Terrorists also gunned down noted Jurist Guido Galli in a corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when...
...Soviets did not let the matter rest. The news agency TASS charged that the U.S. had put forward these "brazen anti-Soviet forgeries" as an excuse for stockpiling biological weapons of its own. And at the Geneva conference, the Kremlin's delegate dismissed Western suspicions about the anthrax outbreak as "symptoms of another epidemic disease, namely anti-Soviet hysteria" inspired by the invasion of Afghanistan...
...Soviets obviously hoped that their brazen, perhaps desperate, action could help their puppet regime bring a stubborn Islamic insurgency in Afghanistan under control and thus stabilize a dangerous flash point on their southern border. But the coup, in fact, added a new dimension of uncertainty to an area of the world already deeply disturbed by the crisis in Iran. Moreover, the deployment of Soviet troops on foreign soil in Central Asia set a fearsome precedent that cast new shadows over international detente and Moscow-Washington relations. The SALT II accord, already in difficulty in the U.S. Senate, seemed even further...