Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buoyant career had one bleak period: as deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Cambodia from 1971 to 1974, he helped preside over the collapse of the U.S.-supported government in Phnom Penh. Now, in his Latin America post, Enders foresees similar turmoil. An ardent believer in the domino theory, he envisions much of Central America as nearly ready to topple to leftists...
...were anything but the benign nationalists so often portrayed by gullible sympathizers; they were cold, brutal revolutionaries determined to dominate all of Indochina. The impact of a North Vietnamese victory on the prospects of freedom and national independence in Southeast Asia was certain to be grave; the much maligned domino theory turned out to be correct...
Government officials defend the action by saying that massive bankruptcies would have a domino effect on the entire financial system. On television last week, during his scheduled Ask the President program, Marcos attacked Ongpin personally, denying his allegations and coolly noting that Benguet itself received aid from the government in the 1960s, when the company was paid more than the official $35-per-oz. price for gold that it mined. Sniffed Marcos: "I don't know what is eating him. He certainly is acting strangely...
...their songwriting still must catch up with their playing. In a recent radio interview, Belmont admitted it takes him six months to write a song. That would have worked in the sixties, when the singles were the dominant mode, but not now. Where Rockpile elevates old tunes like Fats Domino's "I Hear You Knocking" to new fame, the Rumour drags down Manfred Mann's "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine" into the dust heap. The tackiness of the album cover is a joke, but one that will hurt them in this country; Americans don't like being...
...become known as an evangelical Christian who crusades against abortion. Over the past two years, Koop, 64, has toured the country with a 17-hour multimedia presentation called "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" It denounces abortion, the loss of family values, euthanasia and infanticide. Says he: "The first domino to fall was abortion on demand, and it has split the country as has no other issue since the practice of slavery...