Word: regions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget about Latin American history and culture, America says. Forget about trying to understand this complex region by making a serious attempt to understand its people. Just give us reels and reels of Tony Montana swimming in tons of cocaine...
Shultz, on his fourth trip to the region this year to promote his peace plan, held two meetings with Shamir in Jerusalem on Sunday in an effort to persuade him to agree to make a commitment to Jordan that Israel will exchange part of the occupied territories for Arab recogniton...
...also spoke darkly of the prospect of another war in this region where long-range missiles and chemical weapons have proliferated...
...doctoral dissertation, on peasant conditions at collective farms in the Stavropol region, paid homage to the benefits brought by the October Revolution but pointed to some shortcomings in Soviet rural life: the poor quality of food and clothing, the nonexistence of domestic plumbing and heating and the almost complete absence of entertainment. Sidney Monas, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, describes Raisa's paper, a synopsis of which is available at the Library of Congress as well as the Lenin Library in Moscow, as "slightly better than average, not altogether unorthodox, but with some distinct liberal...
...gulf, Moscow is trying to keep lines open to Iran -- in hopes, no doubt, that the U.S.S.R. will fare better with a post-Khomeini leadership than it has with the Ayatullah himself. But the Soviets are also cultivating better ties with the conservative and moderate Arab states of the region...