Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world beyond San Clemente and his family is still very central to Nixon's being. "I share the concern of many people in both parties and some national commentators regarding the deterioration of the American leadership position in the world," he says. But Nixon for the time being at least avoids direct public criticism of anyone in high office. He will begin to speak out more in the fall. He is planning a few speeches, and he has been invited by many foreign countries to come and visit...
...every summer, but this year across the U.S. the plague of insects is one of the most intense and varied in years. The worst grasshopper attack in two decades has moved south through the Plains states into Texas, turning millions of acres of green crops into wastelands. In north central Texas, the grasshoppers attacked peach trees so voraciously that little but the exposed pits remain clinging to half-eaten branches...
...renewed public attention to "local tyrants" is one major indication of Teng's intentions. The Chinese press has accused some local leaders of acting like "patriarchs," "beating and cursing the masses" and even causing "unscrupulous arrests, deaths and disabilities." A document, issued last month by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, instructs local leaders to step up the criticisms of people who are trying to "keep the lid on" the anti-Gang movement. In Kwangtung, according to one broadcast, entrenched followers of the radicals infiltrated an investigation of their own affairs. The result was that evidence compiled...
...fact, Pacepa was no ordinary economic envoy. He was a lieutenant general in the Rumanian security police and a close confidant of President Nicolae Ceauşescu. He may have also been a longtime spy for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which probably spirited him out of West Germany. For the past three weeks, Pacepa has been tucked away in a CIA "safe" house near Washington, where he is presumably spilling information about Rumanian intelligence operations...
...early victim of the militaristic Red Guards, who led him to attempt a suicide jump from a besieged building. His literal fall from power broke only a leg but sidelined him until 1975, when he reappeared first with a minor military post, then on the Communist Party's Central Committee...