Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The occasion marked an improvement, albeit a small one, in the otherwise sorry state of East-West relations. The diplomatic assembly in Madrid was on the verge of concluding its second review of the historic 1975 Helsinki Final Act, the agreement that codified the framework of détente. But...
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou called it "a historic day for Greece." Flanked by his entire Cabinet, he announced last week that his government had just initialed a new agreement allowing the U.S. to keep four major military bases and 20 smaller installations in Greece for another five years. The accord...
Discussions between Britain and China were deadlocked last October, principally because Peking demanded that Britain recognize the Chinese claim of sovereignty over Hong Kong before talks could proceed. After that breakdown, the colony's economic indicators plummeted to historic lows. The news that Britain and China would resume their...
Premier Nikolai Tikhonov filled in for Andropov in what became a rehearsal of the arguments that both sides would exchange throughout the visit. In an attempt to put Kohl on the defensive over Germany's Nazi past, Tikhonov emphasized that the Soviet Union was particularly alarmed by the scheduled...
With gaudy antiabortion posters set up in the normally staid Senate chamber, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and his conservative allies pressed for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision (Roe vs. Wade) that guarantees women a constitutional right to abortion. "The country is...