Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warsaw Pact leads NATO in all conventional weapons and outnumbers NATO forces in Western Europe by two-to-one in men, tanks and artillery. On the important central front in West Germany, Soviet tanks are five times more numerous than NATO forces. Gorbachev has only hinted at possible negotiations on conventional weapons, and only after he has succeeded in reducing INF and strategic nuclear forces--NATO's only counterbalance to Soviet tanks and troops...
Divestment has only been an issue in theelections for two years, but in that time it hasdeveloped into the central point around which theannual competition revolves...
...grip on power with his overwhelming victory over Vrdolyak in April's mayoral election. So thorough was the drubbing that many of Vrdolyak's aldermanic supporters defected to Washington's camp. Vrdolyak, who presided over the tattered remnants of Daley's machine as chairman of the Cook County Democratic central committee, quit the party and became a Republican...
Another promising sign came from Europe, where the central banks of West Germany, the Netherlands and France made interest-rate cuts to spur faster economic growth. Those expansionary moves should help the U.S. economy, too, by boosting Europe's demand for American products and services...
...with Romero's death, Duarte broke the unofficial code of silence that has long protected rightist army officers and politicians from prosecution for their alleged ties to the death squads. At the same time, prominent leaders of the leftist Salvadoran rebels returned home, testing Duarte's compliance with the Central American peace accord that he and five other regional leaders signed in August. A miscalculation in balancing right against left could not only plunge El Salvador into a new round of death-squad killings but also jeopardize the entire peace process...