Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watching a foreign film with no subtitles...
...year after it passed the 1984 Boland Amendment banning U.S. military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras, Congress received news reports that North, then a Marine lieutenant colonel, was secretly raising money for the rebels from foreign countries and private donors and providing tactical military advice...
...Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said the death threats against Rushdie and the publishers of The Satanic Verses for allegedly blaspheming Islam were "unwarranted interference" in Britain's internal affairs...
Howe told a news conference that the EEC foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, had sent "a strong, concerted signal to the Iranian leadership that Khomeini's threats are an affront to international standards of behavior and will not be tolerated...
Since Brazil and China are among the majority of countries that have few regulations governing the foreign sales of chemicals, tracing the path of the seized materials will not be easy. But chemicals manufactured in the U.S. may be another matter, at least in the future. Last year the U.S. passed a new ( law, which will take effect in the next few months, requiring closer supervision of the overseas sales of chemicals used in the production of cocaine, including ethyl ether and acetone...