Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chiang Ching-kuo was finally allowed to return home after twelve years in the Soviet Union. He served in a succession of government posts, and in 1949 joined his father and 2 million other mainlanders in a mass retreat across the Formosa Strait after the Communists seized power in Beijing. Chiang Ching-kuo then presided over a political-warfare department that policed the island against mainland infiltrators and waged propaganda campaigns against the Communists...
...Reagan Administration, to the relief of some of its own members as well as numerous Europeans, saw an opportunity to retreat from the controversial zero option and to reinstate the interim solution, with token missile deployments in Europe. U.S. negotiators tabled a response that seemed quite close to the Soviet proposal: each superpower could keep 100 INF warheads in Europe, but with some Pershing IIs permitted...
MacLaine's New York Hilton session was part of a 15-city national tour (estimated earnings: $1.5 million) to spread the New Age gospel. Next year she plans to open Uriel Village, a 300-acre retreat in Baca, Colo., where customers will be able to get weeklong sessions of meditation, past-life regression therapy, and sound and color healing, among other things. "I want this to be all mine, my energy, my control," says MacLaine. "I want a big dome-covered meditation center and a series of dome-covered meeting rooms because spiritual energy goes in spirals. We'll grow...
...long-awaited knock on the door finally came for Josef Schwammberger, one of the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminals. The ex-SS officer offered no resistance when Argentine police arrested him at his Cordoba retreat, 536 miles north of Buenos Aires...
...cavalry brats, the years between the wars are seen through a golden haze. Jane Wilson Cooper, daughter of the late Colonel Garnet ("Bill") Wilson, a 40-year cavalryman, recalls a "marvelous sense of security when you heard the bugle call tattoo or the gun was fired for retreat. It was the Depression, but we were never aware of not having money. What I remember is fox hunting at Fort Oglethorpe, not being broke." Her voice, these years later, carries enormous pride at being family to an elite corps of warriors...