Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past dreams to thy conquest we woke...
Slowly but unmistakably, the nations of Asia are adjusting to the Communist conquest of Indochina. That event has forced all nations of the region, including China and the countries on its vast periphery, to re-examine their relations with one another and with Washington. Last week Thailand-a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations, once regarded as a barrier to Chinese Communist expansion-followed the Philippines and Malaysia in establishing formal diplomatic relations with Peking. TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold L. Schecter completed a tour of Asia that included many of the affected capitals. His report...
...start of the Korean War 25 years ago, Japanese business executives and politicians are discussing privately how they might join with the U.S. in case of a North Korean attack on the South. The Japanese do not believe that a peaceful unification of Korea is possible. Forceful unification-meaning conquest by the North-would involve the loss of $1.5 billion in Japanese investments and loans to Seoul, and far more seriously, would be a direct threat to Japanese security...
...Will the dictatorial and ambitious Kim Il Sung, absolute ruler of the North, be encouraged by the Communist triumph in Viet Nam to attempt another war of conquest in Korea...
ADAMS DOES HAVE his causes, though. His new novel. Shardik, is a retelling of the divine incarnation story in an attempt to make a moral point. The bear Shardik has such an awesome destructive force that it is perceived as a god of conquest and bloodshed by humans who set up an empire based on the enslavement of the conquered. Brutality is commonplace in this society: slavers drown a little girl, for instance, and hack off a boy's hand. The great bear finally kills the chief slave trader, but undergoes great suffering in doing so, and ends the book...