Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal terms, there is no better instruction. However, the Good Samaritan on the dangerous road of modern leadership who stops too long to minister to a few fallen persons (the hostages) may harm his nation-or never get to his destination. Turning away from evil (the Shah) may invite a greater evil (the Ayatullah Khomeini). Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov seems to be inheriting more of the world than are the meek...
...same ailments, and more. Communist countries are encountering far more difficulty than the West in adapting to the age of economic anxiety. After substantial gains from low bases during the 1950s and early 1960s, progress in Communist economies has sharply slowed in recent years. Technology, innovation and productivity have fallen further behind most Western countries. Economic growth in the Soviet Union last year was about 2%, the lowest since the 1930s...
...Western Europe, where planning within capitalism originated, such government direction has fallen into disfavor. France's Le Plan has operated since 1946, but the program is now virtually ignored; the Eighth Plan, covering 1981-85, will not even contain specific growth targets. In the past, programs directed by the French government produced too many white elephants, like the supersonic Concorde and the steelmaking complex near Marseille, that look brilliant to a bureaucrat but flop in the marketplace. Admits François de Combret, the top French presidential economic adviser: "A bureaucrat like myself, with his butt in a chair...
Those staying in Kabul face a future even more uncertain than the exiles queuing up in front of Western consulates or living in refugee camps in Pakistan. Although Kabul stores are packed with goods-intended for a $100 million tourist trade that has fallen to nothing -the economy is near collapse...
...little book contains no names, not even that of its owner, though there is evidence that he had some connection with Vitebsk, in Byelorussia, and had served with Soviet forces in Hungary. He was a dead Soviet paratrooper, whose personal journal had fallen into the hands of anti-Soviet Afghans...