Word: continental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Africa is a continent crucified by famine and war, pestilence and poverty. For Christianity, however, it is a continent of resurrection. Even as older churches in Europe and the U.S. are emptying, faith is thriving in the sprawling lands south of the Sahara. As is so often the case, spiritual...
For omen seekers, the outward signs were propitious. Secretary of State James Baker bounded down the stairs, hurried to Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's side and offered a hearty handshake. Smiling and pumping arms, they then began their maiden meeting in the glittering, baroque Festsaal in the sprawling Hofburg...
Certain to become every bit as familiar and contentious as the SALT talks on limiting nuclear arsenals that dominated the 1970s, the far more complex CFE talks aim to eliminate the threat of conventional war in Europe. At issue are not only the more than 5 million armed troops deployed...
While the opening atmospherics were promising, the devil, as arms controllers say, is in the details. The Soviets scored early with ambitious unilateral initiatives that went a long way toward meeting the basic Western criterion of trimming the Warsaw Pact's alarming and unmatched capacity to overrun Europe. Beyond that...
Perez, who has long inveighed against his continent's onerous financial burden, had finally found austerity unavoidable. Venezuela owes foreign creditors, largely U.S. commercial banks, about $33 billion. In the 1970s, when the country was awash with petroleum revenues, the government that Perez headed spent lavishly on social-welfare projects...