Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ethics ceased to be a central aim of education around 100 years ago," said Bok, adding that revolutionary changes in 19th century thought had made the subject too difficult to teach...
...Soviet hospital has been turned over to Afghans, and Moscow has reduced its embassy staff by two-thirds, to about 100 people. Soviet infantrymen still patrol Kabul's streets, but they expect to be home within days. "It was a mistake to come here," says a trooper in the central shopping area. "And we are never coming back. It is up to the Afghan people to find a solution to their problems...
Conflicts within the leadership of Najibullah's P.D.P.A. are so pronounced that since last fall the Soviets have retired, jailed or shipped to Moscow three members of the Afghan Politburo and several from the Central Committee. The regime claims to have 500,000 men under arms, but the figure appears to be grossly inflated. Though the Afghan army includes some well-trained and experienced units, like the 37th Commando Brigade, it is made up mostly of conscripts, many of whom are less than eager to fight for the regime. Apparently aware that a number of units are unreliable, the President...
...said the number of Cubans has fallen from "hundreds, not thousands" to "dozens." Further reductions, he suggested, would be tied to the departure of several hundred U.S. military personnel in Honduras and El Salvador. That amounts to no small condition, but the continued presence of U.S. advisers in Central American countries that are allies of Washington would also be prohibited under the regional peace plan devised by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez and signed in 1987 by five heads of state...
...tight, enameled technique could make any vision, no matter how outrageous, seem persuasively real. It fitted the central claim of surrealism that dreams were superior facts, the incarnation of desire and possibility. But it needed a system of images, and that is what Dali found through what he called his "critical-paranoiac" method. In essence, it meant looking at one thing and seeing another -- an extended version of the face seen in the fire. Heads turn into a distant city, a landscape resolves itself as a still life, inexplicable combinations are seen to lurk magically beneath the skin...