Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only the fate of the long-suffering Cambodians but also the competing strategic interests of China and the Soviet Union. The Soviets have been subsidizing Hanoi at a cost of $3 million to $6 million a day since 1979, after the Vietnamese ousted the Peking-supported Pol Pot government from Cambodia. In turn, the Chinese have armed the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, who have been harrying Hanoi's occupying army. Ultimately, Peking seeks to restore the Pol Pot regime to power in Phnom-Penh in spite of the fact that his Communist regime slaughtered an estimated 3 million Cambodians during...
...same time, the U.S. has joined China and ASEAN in promoting a united front of the various forces in Cambodia fighting the Vietnamese. Since the main component would be Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the Reagan Administration is in the anomalous position of backing, however obliquely, Communist combat forces. Says a senior State Department official: "We would be willing to provide political and psychological assistance, but we are not committed to military...
...reviving The Pink Panther, Edwards sired a series of flops that turned Hollywood against him. No longer able to make films on the West Coast, Edwards produced the Panther series in Europe. From the height of his knowledge about Tinsel Town, Edwards, with all credibility now restored, takes a pot shot at Hollywood--the angry gesture, it would seem, of a much maliened...
...paraquat to eradicate marijuana crops remains a top priority of the DEA, even though the public is less concerned about pot than it is about hard drugs. The spraying in Mexico became a cause celebre after traces of the toxic chemical were found in pot smuggled into the U.S. When smoked in heavy doses, the tainted weed caused vomiting, hemorrhaging and, in a few cases, irreversible lung damage. Republican Senator Charles Percy's 1978 amendment to the Foreign Assistance Authorization Act prohibited the U.S. from providing money or materials to foreign countries for paraquat spraying. House and Senate committees...
...hockey team recorded the biggest bang of all, copping the Beanpot title for the first time since the second Monday in February, 1977. Coming as it did in the midst of a season characterized by nothing much of anything (the team failed to qualify for the ECAC playoffs), the "Pot win shocked the Boston hockey elite, if not Crimson coach Billy Cleary...