Word: east-west
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...will they bog down guarding cease-fires indefinitely, as has happened in cases like Cyprus, where a U.N. team has been in place for 28 years without bringing the feuding sides any closer to reconciliation? Only within the diplomatic community is there guarded optimism that the absence of East-West tensions, coupled with the expressed will on all sides for the operations to proceed, will make for a successful outcome...
...tempting, then, to call the coming Olympics the first post-cold war Games. For two decades at least, the superpowers in particular -- the main players in the East-West struggle -- have looked on the Olympics as a way to show off their systems to the world: an extension of war by other means. Off the field, this led to constant bobbing and feinting before and during the 1980 and '84 Games in Moscow and Los Angeles. On the field, it meant the contest between nations became a competition between systems: the East Bloc called upon the efficiency and single-mindedness...
...National Weather Bureau facility where balloons and box kites were sent up to observe weather conditions. In 1936 it came under the control of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, which began to dig an experimental mine into the mountain 250 ft. to 300 ft. below the surface along an east-west axis. The tunnel, which extended a scant quarter-mile and measured 7 ft. wide by 6 1/2 ft. high, provided the opening for what would later be expanded into an underground complex of offices and living quarters...
With the announcement on Saturday of cuts made by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Bush's gamble seems to have paid off. With the easing of East-West tensions, we can all rest a little bit easier than before...
...interested in avoiding nightmares. Twice in this century, Europe has had the nightmare of divisions that have led to world war. We now have the chance to end Europe's East-West division and irreversibly reduce the chances of war. That is the great challenge, and the European Bank can play a role...