Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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An oblique, but fitting, reminder of how Harvard responded to the crisis that saw its troubles splashed across the front covers of Time and Life magazines.
The single-warhead Midgetman (a misnomer for a missile weighing 37,000 lbs.) would sidestep the vulnerability problem by being deployed on hardened, tractor-drawn launchers. In times of crisis, the launchers could be dispersed over thousands of square miles on and off military reservations. But while military planners consider...
Neither side is ecstatic about Baker's gradualist approach, and the hard- line Likud government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir does not want to concede anything of substance. But Baker's hint in testimony to Congress last week that the U.S. may urge Jerusalem to deal directly with the...
Despite a near reverence for authority, East German youths are growing restless because of contact with the freedoms and goods of the West, while an increasingly impatient cadre of younger, more reformist party figures are chafing over the closed door to change at the top. While East Germany seems out...
Still, some observers warn that the moderate reforms fall short of what is needed to overcome the agriculture crisis. A major obstacle to bolder reforms will be fear among farmers that the push toward privatization may be rolled back again. Such inherent caution cannot have eased when Ligachev announced at...