Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...domino theory, often discussed during the Viet Nam War, is even more of a reality today. The Third World and underdeveloped countries are the immediate prey of the Soviet Union. The security of the free world is being threatened to a frightening degree. Both covert and overt aid should be given by the free governments to all nations that find themselves the targets of Soviet meddling in their affairs...
...were the first domino...
...Reagan Administration's greatest concern about the Sandinista regime is its avowed role in what its leaders call "a revolution without frontiers." Although the domino theory has been unfashionable since Viet Nam, it is increasingly apparent that the nations of Central America are vulnerable to a spreading Communist revolution. Even many liberals see this as a danger to the region. Morton Kondracke, the executive editor of the New Republic, last week compared the situation in Central America with what happened in Indochina in 1975 after Congress denied funds to South Viet Nam. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal...
...proposal was put most bluntly by Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Operations Subcommittee. In an emotional Senate speech, Inouye disputed the Administration's thesis that the Salvadoran guerrillas represent a Cuban-and Soviet-backed military thrust to produce a revolutionary domino effect in the U.S.'s backyard. He described the 22,000-member Salvadoran armed forces as violent and corrupt, and urged the Salvadoran government to open negotiations "with all parties to the conflict" before any additional U.S. military assistance is provided...
Rock has produced a few top piano thumpers - Fats Domino, Huey Smith - but none burned with the passion of Jerry Lewis. Sam Phillips, who had started Sun Records in Memphis, sold the contract of his major star, Elvis Presley, to RCA in 1955 for the then unheard-of sum, for a new singer, of $35,000, and he was shopping around for a replacement. Jerry Lee, 21, looked like just the boy. Nicknamed the Killer, to his perpetual displeasure, Lewis sang country, which was not then considered commercially lot. But he also played mean boogie-woogie. He would sit down...