Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero, and some of the biographical information could have been deleted in favor of more relevant facts. Instead, we know more than we care to about Stroup, his desperado rep in dull old Washington, the deluge of drugs pushed on him by grateful constituents, the beautiful people of the counter-culture that he hung with, and his gigantic ego that would lead to his downfall. Anderson describes Stroup...
Saturday morning the squad entered a quad meet in New York, battling the City College of New York (CCNY), Temple and Barnard. Unable to counter CCNY's "streetfighting tactics," the Crimson lost 14-2. It fell again to Temple's sixth-in-the-nation squad, but rallied for a finale and massacred Barnard's usually strong team...
...intensity of current Soviet criticism has rekindled fears of a possible invasion. In a terse official statement last week, the State Department carefully declared that "military intervention in Poland is viewed as neither imminent, inevitable, nor justifiable on any grounds." But that public reassurance was intended to counter widespread reports that Secretary of State Alexander Haig is becoming pessimistic about the outcome of the Polish crisis. Privately, Haig and his top aides believe that it may deteriorate into chaos and create an unacceptable challenge to Moscow. Experts in Bonn and London tend to share that gloomy view, but still feel...
...direct Soviet-American nuclear showdown. The Soviets' 3-to-l superiority in tactical nuclear weapons in Europe could help the Kremlin bluff and bully the West Europeans. Therefore the U.S. should devote more of its strained defense budget to improving the ability of America's allies to counter a new generation of mobile Soviet missiles...
...Afghanistan so long? A: Because they haven't been able to find the person who invited them. But most Soviets see it as a non-issue. Some argue that Afghanistan lies on their Southern boundary and therefore they have to right to support a government friendly to them against counter-revolutionaries and foreign mercenaries. Even people who do not accept the official Soviet line were critical of the American grain embargo and the Olympic boycott. The grain embargo just hurts the average person, they would say, and the Olympic boycott reduced contact between people...