Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Developing countries see drug abuse as America's dilemma, not theirs. Says Bolivian Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy: "It is unfair to put most of the weight on the coca-producing countries when it is a simple law of demand. American and Western European consumers keep doping more and more. Consequently more coca is planted." For that reason, U.S. corporations that try to stem the demand for drugs are getting right to the heart of the problem...
...time he was 23. With dung-beetle persistence he then set out to accumulate the billion dollars that earned him FORTUNE magazine's title, Richest Man in America. That was in 1957, more than five years after Getty had abandoned the U.S. for a nomadic life in European hotels. He said he wanted to be halfway between the oil fields of California and the Middle East. Perhaps. But as his biographers make clear, the Continent was a better place than the prudish U.S. to carry on multiple sexual adventures. By 1960 he was established at Sutton Place, his estate some...
Upon taking office, Gonzalez reversed his anti-NATO position but was nonetheless obliged to go ahead with the referendum. He now sees NATO membership as part of a policy of close ties with the rest of Europe, which was epitomized by Spain's entry into the European Community in January. But Gonzalez's turnaround on the issue has created turmoil in his Socialist Party. He says he will be happy if a mere majority of the Socialists support...
Though still trailing, Gonzalez and his supporters worked extremely hard to make the vote closer than expected with a clever campaign in which they attempted to turn any anti-Americanism on its head. "Isn't it better to discuss our defense with our European partners instead of just with the Americans?" asked Gonzalez. In an effort to increase the size of the yes vote, the referendum promises, in addition, that nuclear weapons would continue to be prohibited on Spanish soil and the number of authorized U.S. troops in Spain would be reduced from its current number...
...voting day approached, European and U.S. diplomats waited with apprehension, hoping Gonzalez could pull off a miracle. From a military standpoint, Spain's withdrawal would matter little, since even now the country is not part of NATO's unified military command structure. But NATO Secretary- General Lord Carrington warned that a referendum defeat would result in a "very grave weakening of the alliance...