Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more clearly than most Americans how implausible and irrelevant that danger is becoming. All they have to do is look at their neighbors on the other side of the Iron Curtain to realize that there is indeed such a thing as Finlandization, but it is happening in the East, not the West. Moreover, it is happening with the approval of Moscow, which is encouraging its comrades to turn toward Paris, Bonn, London and Rome not just for economic help but also for political institutions and values...
...said that on the East Coast, it would be the equivalent of oil washing up on beaches from Boston south to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay and possibly to the Potomac River...
...moves helped restore calm to what has traditionally been the Middle East's most stable nation. But the outburst caught the government by surprise and signaled that something more was awry than momentary resentment over price hikes imposed two weeks...
...year-old girl was kidnaped at knifepoint by two men, held captive for five days and repeatedly raped. She managed to escape and flagged down a passing car. "Get me out of here!" she begged the three teenagers inside. They did, and took her to a park in East Los Angeles, where the eldest of the boys, 18, allegedly raped her again...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir proposed limited elections in the Palestinian territories as a step toward Middle East peace. That is not how the Palestinians there regard it. Last week more than 80 leaders from the West Bank and Gaza issued a statement rejecting the proposal as "a maneuver for the media" designed to sidestep the Palestine Liberation Organization and "ignore our political legitimacy as well as our legitimate aspirations...