Word: communisme
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...Bolster a "strategic asset." Israel was a key component of America's fervent struggle to contain Communism during the Cold War. Rather than station American troops in the Middle East as it did in Western Europe and the Far East, the U.S. relied on Israel's quick-to-mobilize national army to keep the Evil Empire's influence out of the region...
However, the crumbling of Communism has created anxiety as well. For all its faults, the bipolar world was remarkably stable. The superpowers' arsenals balanced each other out. Might checked might. Everybody knew where they stood. Nobody was tempted to start a cataclysmic nuclear...
Centuries of foreign domination have left Arabs with a sense of violation, of second-class status. When communism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the feeling of vulnerability deepened. Arabs found themselves without strategic allies to help them counter Israel's -- and, by extension, America's -- power. George Bush's new world order did not seem to promise much for the Arabs, who militarily remain weaker than Israel. Saddam's answer -- standing up to the world's only superpower -- thus struck a chord within the Arab psyche...
Talk About Tragic--Intersession plans were dashed and Harvard students were devastated after the exam for Professor Houchang E. Chehabi's course, Historical Studies A-36, "The Rise and decline of international Communism," was cancelled because the University bureaucracy lost the test. "I studied for the exam all last night," said Kelly A Bowdren '94, "and now I have this hanging over my head when I go to Washington D.C. during intersession to interview for summer jobs...
...youth rebellion of the '60s, the documentary points out, was a logical reaction against the conformist, prosperity-driven, communism-obsessed '50s. The revolt was especially threatening to Middle America because it went beyond politics and challenged the fundamental values of society. And if it ultimately failed to achieve its more grandiose goals, it left its mark in myriad ways, from college ethnic-studies departments to a new role for women. "Maybe the youth rebellion didn't get what it wanted," the narrator asserts. "But perhaps this generation -- and America -- got what it needed." In a program that utilizes music cannily...