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...like a recession to an awful lot of people." Declares Rose Marie Moore, who was recently laid off from a Massachusetts textile mill: "I'm nervous and scared. I've had my job for 10 years, and now I'm going to have to find another one. It's rough...
...Hussein is crazy, and things could really get rough...
...next three decades, the U.S. persisted in regarding the gulf as a giant gas station in a rough part of town threatened by pro-Moscow gangs and ^ by the Soviets themselves. The Nixon Doctrine of 1969 deputized friendly regional strongmen, notably the Shah of Iran, to protect the neighborhood against Soviet aggression. Ten years later, the fall of the Shah and the Kremlin's invasion of Afghanistan prompted the Carter Doctrine: Soviet encroachments would be considered an attack on vital American interests...
...blasphemous" regime. He is a Sunni Muslim, though most Iraqis belong to the rival Shi'ite branch, as did Khomeini. Saddam responded by invading, confident that his powerful, Soviet-equipped army could easily smash the Ayatullah's ragtag militia, but the Iranians fought back. When the going got especially rough, Saddam turned to poison gas, a horror weapon outlawed after World...
EDUCATION: Mining diamonds in the rough...