Word: buts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year, trade between the two countries is expected to reach an impressive total of $9.6 billion, up from $7.4 billion in 1978; it has made Taiwan the U.S.'s eighth largest trading partner. By contrast, two-way trade between the People's Republic of China and the...
During the quarter-century of Stalin's iron rule over the U.S.S.R., the dictator's birthday on Dec. 21 was cause for frenzied national jubilation. As Stalin grew older, Pravda and every other Soviet newspaper carried little else but good wishes to him from groups of factory workers...
On the 100th anniversary of Stalin's birth last week, Pravda ran a major editorial that mentioned some of Stalin's crimes, including "serious violations of Soviet legality and wholesale reprisals." As a result, the paper said, "many distinguished Communist Party and government leaders, high-ranking military commanders...
The Georgians' attachment to their native son is not only local pride, but also local resentment at their domination by the Russians who rule the country from Moscow. Less understandable is the nostalgia for the Stalin era that is expressed by a minority of Russians. Some complain that the...
Not since November 1973 had so many Greek university students rallied in protest. At that time, the celebrated siege of Athens' Polytechnic University had provoked a violent clash with the army that helped topple the country's military junta. Now the marchers, 15,000 strong from all political...