Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocaine merely produced a false sense of personal supremacy, and that was that, it would be less menacing. But the "crash" from coke, the letdown when the drug wears off and heady illusions disappear, is grim. To ward off melancholy and the jitters after the supply runs out, many users get drunk or take sedatives like Quaaludes. Or worse. "The drug that works best to cut the crash," says
General Galtieri faded from the political landscape shortly after Argentinian troops began to disappear from the Falkland Islands. The military still retain control of the country, but Galtieri's successor, General Reynaldo Bignone, has been operating from a very different position from that of his predecessor. The defeat in the Falklands reinforced the hostile civilian attitude toward the military government that was prevalent before the war and Bignone has been feeling very serious pressure, both politically and economically. During the past year, inflation in Argentina hovered at 210 percent while the country suffered a severe recession...
...when reporters at a press briefing examined the data on individual programs, the figures turned slippery. The Air Force, for example, claimed a saving of $4.2 billion on the purchase of air-launched cruise missiles because of "quantity decrease." That "saving" will disappear rapidly when the service switches to a new and more expensive type of missile. But its costs are secret...
...offends and frightens her. Fear and loathing seem to have been part of her carry-on baggage. At the airport, her papers are checked in "a thicket of automatic weapons." Cherokee Chiefs, synonymous with family fun in the States, lurk about as the preferred vehicles of death squads that "disappear" people suspected of guerrilla activities or sympathies. She visits the body dumps of El Playon and Puerta del Diablo, where many of the disappeared turn up dead and disfigured. She peeks into the tallies of the weekly "grim-grams" that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador sends to Washington...
...goal was to reduce the vulnerability of strategic forces by maintaining symmetrical numbers of strategic weapons. If neither side could hope to destroy its opponent, the incentive for surprise attack would disappear in the face of certain and intolerable retribution. So long as missiles had single warheads and airplanes needed hours to reach their targets, a surprise attack would require a vast numerical preponderance. (Even with highly accurate missiles, an attacker probably would not risk a first strike without two warheads for each target, to allow for malfunctioning, hardened targets or errors in accuracy...