Word: distractedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In 1979 the Soviets escalated their intervention against Afghanistan's Muslim militants and recalcitrant tribesmen who had been waging a long simmering and spreading rebellion. The insurgents, in turn, received more covert assistance from China, Pakistan and other countries. But by now the U.S. was distracted by a new...
Mastroianni has no sooner bedded the girl than he learns there is a chance that she might be his daughter, the issue of one of his youthful liaisons. The mother is long dead, and the truth is never definitively determined, but the scandalous possibility is not to be taken too...
Holsti's view is seconded by most experts. They feel that the Kremlin carefully calculated the risks before giving the orders for its troops to swoop into Afghanistan. Though it could easily anticipate diplomatic friction with Washington, it could also believe that there was almost no danger of U.S. or...
George Schneider, on the other hand, spends most of his time pining over his recently deceased wife, and after a while, it's clear that there is not much depth to his character, or to the story. Schneider is a novelist, the kind who writes 300 pages of a book...
The decade was erected upon the smoldering wreckage of the '60s. Now and then, someone's shovel blade would strike an unexploded bomb; mostly the air in the '70s was thick with a sense of aftermath, of public passions spent and consciences bewildered. The American gaze turned...