Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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U.S. intelligence sources, similarly, do not believe that the Mujahedin enjoy sufficient popular support to take over. "They can obviously disrupt and terrorize, but whether they have an alternative program and leadership to offer is far from clear," says one expert. Washington, in any event, has no illusions about its...
South Street Seaport, Manhattan. A pet project of Mayor Edward Koch's since he first saw Faneuil Hall Marketplace, the $250 million venture as now envisioned will encompass eleven blocks of New York's oldest neighborhood. It will include expansion of the sprightly but small South Street Seaport Museum, renovation...
The growth of commercial air transport has literally changed the landscape of U.S. business. To spur their local economies and attract new corporations, cities have invested many billions of dollars in the construction and expansion of airports and terminal facilities. These have become beacons for business in their own right...
Sadat used several maps to illustrate the growing Soviet presence in the Persian Gulf region and Africa and pressed for more U.S. aid and military equipment. The U.S. must be firm in resisting Soviet expansion, he said, but he made a strong plea that anti-Communism not be equated with...
America's sense of social drift, Yankelovich argues, is not created just by the human-potential faddists and their self-destructive tendency to confuse "needs" and "desires." Rather, the problem is broader based, encompassing the middle group, which developed its semiliberated values in a time of economic plenty. According...