Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreed on in 1972, Henry Kissinger called reporters to a midnight briefing in an empty Moscow nightclub, and when the questions of numbers of missiles and bombers came up, he called for the U.S. to begin a dialogue. What did it mean to be able to kill another nation ten or 100 times over? It is one of the many ironies that Kissinger today is in deep doubt about the treaty he helped launch, and has become a rallying point for what is potentially the most serious defection from treaty support-a range of moderate political leaders and their bright...
Because the entire controversy may boil down to America's faith in itself and in Jimmy Carter, the White House is gradually gearing up the nation's defense planning and spending. Within a few weeks Carter will decide whether the next step in ballistic missile planning should focus on movable barges, trucks, airplanes, or a network of underground silos where missiles can be randomly moved about. New ideas tumble over one another. There are those who are now convinced that the old submariner in Carter is quietly pushing for our major deterrent to be roving under the oceans...
Auxiliary. A guerrilla who has joined the government side, or a black who has been recruited as a counterinsurgent by one of the pro-government nationalist parties. Known in a Shona dialect as a Pfumo reVanhu (spear of the nation...
...sons and a daughter-in-law by Islamic militiamen. By week's end the threat of escalation had grown so great that both men were prompted to back down. But, though the two Ayatullahs patched up their quarrel, the deep divisions that are rending the nation remained...
Indulging his fondness for state visits once again, Rumania's maverick Communist ruler Nicolae Ceauşescu last week was in the middle of a 17-day, eight-nation tour of Africa and the Middle East. One thing he surely spent little worrying about was his political base back home. In his absence there was hardly an important area of national life that was not watched over by some relative he had placed in a top position over the years...