Word: protractedness
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The Khmer Rouge Communists were driven out of Phnom-Penh in January 1979 by the superior firepower of invading Vietnamese armies. Since then, from camps in remote jungle areas, they have carried on a bitter struggle against their ancient ethnic enemies. Last week the Khmer Rouge-perhaps the world'...
Q. You say you want the international community to try putting pressure on Viet Nam to get out of Kampuchea. The Vietnamese have stated repeatedly that their course is "irreversible." So aren't you faced with a protracted war?
Co-Chairman Mohammed Bedjaoui, 50, is Algeria's chief delegate to the United Nations. An attorney who holds a doctorate from the University of Grenoble in France, Bedjaoui served from 1958 to 1961 as legal adviser to the rebels' provisional government during the protracted Algerian struggle against France...
As stated, in the current view of the Soviet leaders, nuclear weapons are the decisive instruments of modern warfare: consequently, their forces are structured around them, and their operations adopted to them. Russian generals do not deny the possibility of conventional engagements between the major powers, but they look upon...
Despite all the talk in recent years about the world's having changed into a place with several centers of power, the dominant relationship still is that between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Thus it was to Washington that other nations were looking for leadership. The Administration was clearly...