Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran-contra affair showed anything, it wasn't that the "CIA can corrupt U.S. foreign policy." It was that the CIA is a tool that can be misused by the officials who make U.S. foreign policy. To argue otherwise is to forget that our elected leaders control the agency, and that it is they who are responsible for its mistakes...
...hard in a country that has seen 70,000 lives taken over the past eight years, by both the assaults of a Marxist-led rebellion and the terror of a right-wing military and its shadowy death-squad allies. But unforgiving El Salvador had appeared in recent years to forget the pursuit of its beloved Archbishop's assassins -- until last week. Speaking to reporters at the Ilopango military air base, President Jose Napoleon Duarte announced that an informant had linked Romero's murder to Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist political foe and a former army major long suspected...
...then as now a century was coming to an end. Mars was once widely believed to be inhabited by little green men, so when Orson Welles declared on the radio in 1938 that space invaders had landed, much of the nation went into a panic. And do not forget The Search for Bridey Murphy. Or the fad of talking to plants. Plus ca change...
...officials as ladri, or robbers, but the return to crisis government this year after a season of stability has touched off questions of confidence about the nation's leadership. Some, like De Benedetti, are still hopeful that Italy will find a way out of its current malaise. "Don't forget," he says, "that Italians bring out their best at times of uncertainty and difficulty." But Pansa is not so sure. "People have grown weary of the political parties, of their talk," he says. "We're simply tired. Italy has changed...
...Forget the winter hats. Forget the heavy coats. The Harvard hockey team is bringing its swim suits and sun tan lotion to Ithaca tonight...