Word: notted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last fall the Soviet Union launched a ferocious propaganda campaign against the NATO missile proposals. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev declared that the Soviet Union would not "watch indifferently the efforts of the NATO militarists," but would be ready to "take the necessary extra steps to strengthen our security." In a...
At last week's meeting, Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Harold Brown argued that NATO must act immediately on the missile decision. They also pointed out that the Iran crisis had reawakened the U.S. to the dangers to its own security, and they emphasized that for the solidarity of...
Within ten hours Clark had kept his word, Parliament had been dissolved, and a new national election was called for Feb. 18. Canada was faced with the swiftest demise of any government in nearly a century, and the country faced an electoral struggle for which no one was really prepared...
Clark's dramatic downfall took place over a classic bread-and-butter issue: the budget. At stake was an austerity program that had been outlined two days before by Finance Minister John Crosbie. The program's goal was to raise an extra $3.5 billion in Canadian tax revenue...
Only nine countries in the world had an unblemished record: Austria, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Fiji, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada and Costa Rica. The U.S. was not listed among them. Though not charged expressly with political repression, it is nonetheless criticized for the resumption in some states of the death penalty, which...