Word: march
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...March 1983 Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as "the focus of evil in the modern world." Harsh words, but no harsher than what Nitze said in 1950 in a report to Harry Truman called National Security Council Directive No. 68, one of the seminal documents of the cold war ("The Kremlin is inescapably militant"). Nitze supervised the preparation of NSC-68 as director of the State Department's policy planning staff. His desk was only a conference room away from that of his friend and boss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson. His office in Foggy Bottom today, its walls...
...officials are also sounding the alarm. "In terms of organization, we are better equipped this time," says Peter Newhouse, a senior FAO economist. "But if donation decisions are not made immediately, and it's not raining in Ethiopia by March, then we are in trouble. We will move from a disaster to a catastrophe...
...harder it gets for Captain Midlife to take this ( season. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. Five weeks of souped-up revels strung out like dead leaf fires. Not that January is any great shakes either, with its glass-eye skies threatening to shatter; or loony February; or March blowing about one's head like some parent ranting in a never-cleaned-up room. Still, it is this season that gets the Captain down, and up, and down again. Poor Captain Midlife. Can anybody out there lend him a hand...
...first session of the talks in March 1985, the chairman of the Soviet delegation, Victor Karpov, a bluff, crusty veteran of SALT, trotted out virtually all Moscow's old demands and added some new ones for good measure. He went out of his way to stress that his plenary statement had been approved "at the highest level" -- by Mikhail Gorbachev, who had become General Secretary one day before...
...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 goal, they were attacked by 2,000 soldiers of the Vietnamese army. More than 100 of the intruders were killed, 77 taken prisoner...