Word: one
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard had four key opportunities to pick up the necessary points to defeat the Lions. But the Crimson was short on all four races--the 100, 200 and 500 freestyles, and the 200 breaststroke. All the events were decided by less than one second...
...Salvador, the U.S.-backed right-wing government has spent the last two weeks battling leftist insurgents in one of the fiercest rebel offensives of the decade. Media attention has focused on the possibility of a rebel victory, allegedly presided over by the Soviets and their Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. No one mentions the possibility that the insurgents might be independently fighting to overthrow a brutal right-wing regime and to assert El Salvador's right to self-determination...
...murder of the priests is only one of many horrific acts we have implicitly sponsored in El Salvador and in the rest of Central America. It's time we replaced a simplistic and dubious fear of Soviet domination with a concern for human rights...
...Fifty-one years ago, a famous British Prime Minister bet his reputation that no such emotions would ever reign in Germany. After returning from the 1938 Munich Conference at which he agreed to let Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain told his fellow citizens, "For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time....Go home and get a nice quiet sleep...
...One month ago, George Bush announced at a press conference that the American people have nothing to fear from German reunification. If he really believes this is so, we can only assume that Bush does not value history's lessons. Unless he changes his position, Bush could go down in history as Neville Chamberlain...