Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When its black hull slipped into the waters off Groton, Conn., last week, the submarine Ohio launched a new era in nuclear warfare. Regarded as one of the world's most sophisticated weapons systems, it is the first of a planned fleet of 13 Trident A-subs. In size...
At the end of the 3-hr. 20-min. ceremonies in Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, John Wayne himself came on. The old martial role model, looking gaunt but energetic, his stomach and one lung gone to cancer, presented the Oscar for Best Picture of 1978. It went to...
The psychological effect on Americans of all this crisscross Realpolitik is to lift a lot of the moral burden off the American involvement. At the least, it seems less tenable to hold that the U.S. was guilty of the uniquely satanic imperialism that antiwar critics often saw-and still frequently...
In a sense, the formal foreign policy lessons that the U.S. learned from Viet Nam have been easier to absorb than the deeper psychological and personal meanings, which will be years in unfolding. Says Columbia University Historian Henry Graff: "America has learned for the first time that not everything it...
What had gone wrong? One theory favored by Sinologists was that Deng Xiaoping had concluded that his people had let off enough steam, and that further permissiveness by party leaders was an invitation to anarchy. In fact, China's press for the past few weeks has been filled with...