Word: nam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has described the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan as illegal and immoral. Similar things were said in the U.S. about the American involvement in Viet Nam, and this had a demoralizing effect on the U.S. military for many years. What impact do you see on the Soviet military...
...that in 1962, 48 hours after saying defeat would at least restore his family life, he left for the Bahamas without his wife and daughters. Fact: during 1968 he artfully cultivated Lyndon Johnson's goodwill for his own benefit and later repaid his predecessor with small kindnesses. Fact: Viet Nam and other realities he inherited on Inauguration Day forced him to choke his own genuine hawkishness and preside over the retreat of American power...
...ambivalence of Hubert Humphrey. Nixon's caution almost enabled Humphrey to recoup in the final days, but the Republican knew his constituency well enough to squeeze out a puny plurality. Over the next four years, he built that slight advantage into a mighty force despite the agony of Viet Nam. Ambrose leaves his protagonist in inexplicable melancholy after the 1972 triumph, the ripples of Watergate just beginning to grow into a tidal wave...
...Moscow-based Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, known as Comecon, has brokered the bulk of East bloc trade. Comecon encourages individual countries to specialize in the manufacture of specific goods and sets production goals to meet the bloc's needs and those of other members, including Cuba and Viet Nam. Since all trade is accounted for in rubles, Comecon has built a wall around itself that promotes inefficiency and the production of shoddy goods...
...Viet Nam memorial in Washington has become a touchstone for American feelings about that war. Now in Montgomery the artist has created the first- ever memorial to the civil rights movement -- a risky work that may delve even deeper into the American character...