Word: link
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some have criticized this month's announcement that the Kennedy School would administer a new research project funded by the CIA. They believe that the link between the University and America's intelligence gathering arm would somehow "legitimize" the CIA--whatever that means--and sully Harvard's reputation as a "liberal institution...
Naive critics of the CIA link would like to make the university an Ivory Tower hidden from the pressures of the nation and the nation a similar tower hidden from the pressures of the world. But in this dangerous international environment, we must play the game of the Soviet bloc--which has used all forms of espionage and covert action in its perpetual competition with the United States for world predominance--in order to preserve the freedoms and liberties we enjoy. To think otherwise would be foolhardy and unrealistic, something not unusual to many hiding from the real world behind...
...camps in Thailand, 200 exiled Vietnamese last summer launched a quixotic campaign. Part of a movement calling itself the National United Front for the Liberation of Viet Nam, they stealthily crossed the jungles of Laos last July, making for the Central Highlands of their homeland. There they hoped to link up with mountain tribesmen opposed to the Communist government and begin a guerrilla war to overthrow Hanoi. Each commando carried an automatic rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition. Beyond that, the battalion had only some rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machine guns. In August, a day's march from their...
...uses a technique called reportage, or fictionalized reporting. Liu "analyzes basic social conditions that [allow] corruption to grow," author Perry Link wrote...
...Game 7 of the Stanley Cup semi-finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames. With less than two minutes left in regulation and the score tied. Steve Smith picked up the puck behind his own goal. Smith was Edmonton's enforcer, a weak link on an Oiler team that was arguably the most potent offensive force in the history of the game...