Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved, would the fighting spread beyond Viet Nam? And was there any way for the U.S. to contain it? "We will not get involved in a conflict between Asian Communist states," Carter promised last week. But the only remedies he offered were those of the mediator-"to express our deep concern ... to encourage restraint...
...world becomes more complex, it is more important than ever before that we do not oversimplify events abroad. Bad analysis inevitably leads to bad policy. Instead, we need to be aware of the deep historical forces at work in other countries. To ignore these realities or fail to understand them would lead us into taking actions that might be ineffective or irrelevant or even dangerous...
...President had expected a difficult time in Mexico, but he was surprised by the intensity of López Portillo's salvos, the deep emotional hostility rooted in a century of history. The easy thing, and maybe even the politically advantageous thing, would have been to talk back. Or would it? Newly minted Presidential Candidate John Connally, who comes out of the assertive Southwest border tradition, probably would have handled the matter differently. Or so he indicated last week as he roared through his native land, proclaiming that "we seem to have lost our zest for strong leadership...
...Vietnamese defenses, an estimated 60,000 Chinese troops advanced in a broad surge along the jagged 480-mile border. Infantry, supported by T-59 tanks, spurted through the passes of the rugged, hilly terrain, bowled over Vietnamese outposts and fanned out in a broad, coordinated advance about six miles deep. By Hanoi's own admission, the Chinese after two days had occupied eleven towns and villages and had surrounded Dong Dang with tanks and self-propelled guns...
...cart of capitalist goodies is sent hurtling down the aisle and crashes through the façade." The films, in her view, also ease the dread of death, since there is comfort in knowing that everyone almost always dies together. Concludes Conrad: "The success of disaster entertainment is rooted deep in the concerns and apprehensions of the American psyche." his pessimistic The Culture of Narcissism, argues that modern civilization is beginning to show signs of the breakdown that marked the end of the medieval world-the same point made by Barbara Tuchman in her bestseller A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous...