Word: globe
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Although the U.S. is no longer the globe's sole superpower, it still is one of two superpowers and, more important, is the leader of the industrial democracies. It is looked to for guidance and protection by many developing countries. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has challenged not only the U.S., but also that portion of the world sharing America's values and aspirations. The problem is not so much one of U.S. strength?the U.S. is strong indeed?but of applying this strength in ways that make us seem effective, seem wise, and seem responsible leaders of the free...
FORSYTH MOVES THE action around the globe every few paragraphs until we learn that the Soviet grain crop has failed almost completely because the red bureaucracy fouled up. The folks in the Zil limousines, especially the Brezhnev-clone Soviet premier, Maxim Rudin, are not amused, and Rudin's Kremlin rivals want to use the crisis to get the old curmudgeon bounced. Back in Washington, Bill Matthews and Assistant for National Security Affairs, Stanislaw (read Zbigniew) Poklewski, and Secretary of State David (read Cyrus) Lawrence want to use the shortage to wring concessions out of the Russians...
...lean figure of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini towered malignly over the globe. As the leader of Iran's revolution he gave the 20th century world a frightening lesson in the shattering power of irrationality, of the ease with which terrorism can be adopted as government policy. As the new year neared, 50 of the American hostages seized on Nov. 4 by a mob of students were still inside the captured U.S. embassy in Tehran, facing the prospect of being tried as spies by Khomeini's revolutionary courts. The Ayatullah, who gave his blessing to the capture, has made impossible...