Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Vietnamese will not go any further and launch a major offensive, Marr explained, because "North Vietnam does not want to give the United States any pretext to resume bombing...
...Paris peace agreement, Duc says. But because implementing the peace agreement's call for the release of political prisoners and the restoration of democratic rights would have meant his downfall. Thieu ignored the agreement. After an interregnum of six or eight months. North Vietnamese and NLF troops began to launch counter-attacks. "Democracy in South Vietnam is getting worse and worse," Duc continues: "before they ordered police to release Congressmen, but now they beat Congressmen, they beat Catholic priests." Catholics were the last major group to support Thieu, he concludes: now that even that support is gone, Thieu's replacement...
...habit of turning China topsy-turvy every once in a while to prevent bureaucratic ossification and ensure the vitality of what he terms "continuing revolution." Bent on "sweeping up the ghosts and monsters" of privilege and hierarchy, he may order his ministers out to dig irrigation ditches or even launch a campaign like the Cultural Revolution, which convulsed his huge country for three years...
...junta's iron-fisted rule, Greece is now savoring the political and cultural freedoms of a revived democracy. But the new-found liberties, rather than mellowing the desire for retribution, seem to have inflamed it. Released from rigid censorship, almost every art form has been used to launch direct or indirect attacks on the junta...
...spite of these disclaimers, the Soviet decision to scuttle its trade accord with the U.S. constituted a major reversal of Kremlin policy. Determined to modernize their economy, the Russians -who will launch a vast, multibillion-dollar 15-year plan in 1976-want massive foreign investment, industrial know-how and sophisticated technology from the U.S. Although such aid has long been available from Japan and Western Europe, the Soviets calculated that only the U.S. could provide the technology for such grandiose enterprises as the $5 billion truck-manufacturing complex on the Kama River. In light of this hunger for credits, Moscow...