Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's past yields few lessons. Franklin Roosevelt, an Assistant Secretary of the Navy during World War I, fancied himself a strategist of sorts. He loved to ride the bridge of a warship, wearing his black cape. But warfare was simpler then, and Roosevelt's long reign as an active Commander in Chief did educate him. Harry Truman had good instincts about war, and even better men around him. Ike, of course, knew roughly what he was doing...
...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 a reign of terror that lasted nearly four years. One theory to explain why China did not back the ASEAN proposal was that it wants to keep on bleeding Viet Nam and the Soviet Union for a while longer...
...Mujahedin hope the clergy's brutal crackdown will create sympathy for their cause, just as it occurred in the final years of the Shah's reign. In that sense, the mullahs seem to be playing into their hands. Firing squads-killed more than 50 "counterrevolutionaries" last week; raising to at least 153 the number of people executed since Banisadr was deposed as President on June 22. Jails are so packed that new suspects are no longer detained, just beaten and dumped in alleys. Laments a prominent Tehran lawyer: "Iran has become a horror movie...
Having defeated Hua, Deng took on Mao. The Central Committee's 27,000-word resolution, the product of a year of internecine argument and six complete rewrites, was a devastating critique of Mao's leadership and policies during nearly all of his 39-year reign. Though the resolution credited Mao for performing "indelible meritorious service in founding and building up our party," he was accused of committing "theoretical and practical mistakes concerning class struggle in a socialist society." Mao's worst errors, which caused China "the most severe setbacks and heaviest losses," came during the Cultural Revolution...
...fighters screamed overhead in tight formation, native horns blasted, and a 1,000-voice choir boomed out Handel's Hallelujah Chorus ("And he shall reign for ever and ever") with no apparent sense of irony. Yet perhaps the greatest source of satisfaction for President Ferdinand Marcos last week as he celebrated his third inauguration in 16 years was that standing on the rostrum with Marcos and his wife Imelda was U.S. Vice President George Bush. After years of friction with Jimmy Carter over human rights, the Marcos regime was in favor again with a U.S. President. Indeed, Bush went...