Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thatcher's decision was reinforced by growing European concern about the cold war attitude emanating from Washington and the concurrent rise of the peace movement at home. She saw public opinion changing over the past year as a result of U.S. missile deployment in Western Europe, the breakdown in U.S.-Soviet arms talks, skepticism over American policies in Central America and Lebanon, and the U.S. move into Grenada. The U.S. presidential election and uncertainty about Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's health were further reasons for her "deep concerns about relations between East and West," she observed. After four...
...reducing the risk of war." A White House set of separate comments added that the U.S. hoped the Soviet Union would "take advantage of the opportunities at hand" to improve relations. But what the administration seems to forget is that Andropov was no more the cause of that breakdown than our own gun-toting President: after all, it was Reagan that diplomatically labelled the Soviet Union as "evil empire." The Administration's apparent view that the Russians will suddenly "come around" now that Andropov has died seems dangerously and ludicrously wishful...
That story is not an unusual one. Many schools across the nation have learned to deal effectively with the breakdown in discipline that caused chaos in the nation's classrooms in the 1960s and 1970s. According to Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, discipline problems are "nowhere near as bad as they were five years ago - there has been an important swing in student and parent attitudes...
...intermediate-range missiles were under discussion, the U.S. would be burdened by the necessity of representing the position of its European allies, supposing those often disunited nations could agree on one. But the alternative could be a prolonged suspension of the START as well as the INF negotiations, a breakdown of what remains of the SALT treaties, a completely unrestrained arms race, and considerable damage to NATO...
Andropov's contributions to the breakdown of Soviet-American relations, in one sense, go back further than Reagan's. He became a full member of the Politburo in 1973, when Reagan was still Governor of California with no influence on U.S. foreign policy. Thus Andropov was part of the Kremlin leadership that did much to scuttle détente not long after it was launched...