Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambodia sinks ever deeper into crisis. For a time, in late May, the Khmer insurgent offensive slowed, but in June the attacks began again, this time concentrating on the area to the south and southwest of the capital. Village after village was held briefly, then abandoned after air strikes and...
Yet there is growing doubt that the President's present economic team, led by Shultz, CEA Chairman Herbert Stein and COLC Director John Dunlop, can deal effectively with the difficult problems ahead. Says Economist Pierre Rinfret, a Republican and an influential adviser to Nixon: "Shultz and Stein are incompetent...
Eight of the 14 stories in The Life to Come are the survivors of these purges. They deal with such things as the seduction of a provincial couple by two sailors, a brief homosexual idyl between a middle-aged businessman and a milkman, and an East-meets-West shipboard disaster...
Barring some unpredictable and unlikely disaster, the Washington summit will almost certainly enhance Brezhnev's prestige and position in the Soviet Union. Until recently the Moscow hierarchy was a determinedly collective leadership. Brezhnev's dealings are still sharply defined within the perimeters set by the Politburo. But since...
The exact cause of the crash may never be known unless the Russians can recover more data from the TU-144's damaged flight recorder. Most experts blame Koslov for trying to force the TU-144 through maneuvers better suited to a fighter than an airliner. The real question...