Word: return
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toward the end of Akhromeyev's trip to the U.S. last year, he remarked privately that the experience had convinced him that the U.S. would never start a war. The Soviets clearly hoped Crowe's return visit would inspire a reciprocal conviction. But Crowe was not willing to go quite that far. He left for home, he said, "understanding emotionally what I'd only understood intellectually before: the vastness of the real estate for which the Soviet armed forces are responsible, and the historical vulnerability to invasion. That's something hard for Americans to conceive of. After...
...Africa. With neither side able to prevail in an increasingly costly and bloody contest, the first step toward conciliation was finally taken last December. After eight years of U.S.-brokered negotiations, South Africa agreed to grant independence to Namibia, the southwest African territory it had administered since 1914, in return for a Cuban promise to pull its 50,000 soldiers out of Angola...
...have no memory. Not that they have forgotten their ancient childhood memories. They often retain these. But they have lost entirely the capacity to establish new memories. Everything they see, everything they hear, everything they think, they forget within seconds. Introduce yourself to a Korsakoffian, leave the room, and return a minute later. He will have no recollection...
...Bulgarians of Turkish descent who are streaming into Turkey at the rate of more than 2,000 a day and the Rumanians of Hungarian origin who are seeking safety in Hungary, are too caught up in the frightened flight from ethnic persecution to worry about whether they will ever return home. Finally, there are those, like the Vietnamese boat people, who are fleeing troubles that are more economic than political in nature. Their hope: to find a home in one of the affluent nations of the industrialized world...
...community to embrace the principle of "forced repatriation." Two weeks ago, at a U.N.-sponsored conference in Geneva, attended by representatives from 76 countries, Hong Kong and the six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations -- Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Brunei -- pressed for the mandatory return of boat people to Viet Nam. The appeal was blocked, for differing reasons, by Viet Nam and the U.S., but the conference did ratify a new policy of refusing to grant automatic refugee status to fresh arrivals. In Hong Kong alone, as a consequence, some 33,000 boat people will...