Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FRANCE had the French Revolution. And soon after, France also had protracted historical arguments about the legacy of their popular revolt...
...collapse within months, perhaps even weeks, of Feb. 15. As the prospect of a bloody siege grew last week, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker ordered the closing of the American embassy in Kabul and told the eight U.S. diplomats still in Afghanistan to leave the country. The British, French, Italians and Japanese * decided to follow suit and announced that they would be withdrawing their diplomats from Afghanistan...
This adamant adherence to his own artistic vision paralleled his egotism, which, even at a young age, was noted by his fellow schoolmates. Though his unquestionable talent was admired by Rembrandt as well as the great French painter Nicolas Poussin, Testa's proud and aloof nature often made him the stereotypical outsider artist. As Professor Cropper points out in the exhibit catalog, Testa's vacillating career and his eventual suicide fostered the "myth of a wild uncontrolled romantic spirit." This myth, too, hurt the popularity...
...series of national traumas. After Tet, Americans suffered in their living rooms as more than 5,000 U.S. Marines held out for weeks after being surrounded at Khe Sanh, a redoubt in the chilly, wet South Vietnamese highlands. The heroism under heavy fire reminded many of the French troops who surrendered in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. But the Marines did not surrender. In March, Westmoreland was replaced as U.S. commander in South Viet Nam by General Creighton Abrams. President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. In the same month, whispers spread of a horrifying massacre...
...some indicators, speculation in Gorby futures remains a sound investment. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, still the toast of the West, was host to members of the prestigious Trilateral Commission in Moscow last week, chatting amiably with Henry Kissinger, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. A day later the Kremlin announced that come November Gorbachev will visit Italy, raising the intriguing prospect of a historic meeting between the Communist Party chief and the Pope. And with a quick one-two punch, Gorbachev announced plans to reduce the Soviet military budget by 14.2%, while...