Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line with its pledge to keep the regime well armed, Moscow has in recent weeks been sending into Kabul large shipments of weapons and ammunition, including such advanced hardware as the BTR-70 armored car and the BM-22 rocket launcher. Western diplomats in Kabul believe that in the end the resupply effort will make little difference. Says one: "They can have all the fancy hardware they like, but it is the morale of the troops that's critical...
...past year the U.S. has grown increasingly concerned that the Khmer Rouge might fill a vacuum left by a Vietnamese retreat from Kampuchea. As part of Mikhail Gorbachev's overall policy of defusing Third World conflicts, Moscow has been pressuring Viet Nam to end its occupation. Hanoi has agreed to pull out all its troops by September. In response, China seems willing to cut off support to the Khmer Rouge once the Vietnamese complete their withdrawal...
...support skirt," a device that supports the MX while it rests in its silo. Though the stumble set off warning signals that would sound with the firing of an ICBM, a Pentagon spokesman assured that "at no time was there any indication or chance of accidental launch." By the end of last year, corrective steps were taken to prevent the missiles from falling down on the job again...
...only to armed patrols but also to fences, closed-circuit television monitors and electronic sensors. Now it is making a last-ditch effort -- literally. For one thing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will expand its force of border patrolmen by a third, to 4,300, by year's end. On top of that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some 300,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year. INS officials maintain that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide...
More and more, such delectable morsels are coming to light as interest in laser grows (distributors predict the laser market will double in sales to $80 million by the end of 1989). But the historical fillips are more than curiosities and commercial come-ons. They make movies resonate with fresh possibilities and new impact...