Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ally who exterminated millions of Soviet citizens before the war. The same government fought over the spread of darkness, only to let the Iron Curtain fall over Europe. But at least Western Europe was free; we never really cared about Eastern Europe--it always seemed just like Russia anyway...
...India, and, yes, her dogs. When she died in the Dorset village of Maiden Newton in 1978, discreet as an old teacup at the age of 84, she already passed for an Edwardian relic, inhabiting, in her own words, a "long, long ago, when there was a Tzar in Russia, and scarcely an automobile or a divorced person in Mayfair...
...strong and important case for a draft without exemptions for the rich and the connected, they concluded that a draft would "temper our conduct in the world." This was certainly not the message that former President Carter sought to convey when he ratified the Selective Service Act shortly after Russia invaded Afghanistan. The expressed purpose of registration was to demonstrate that we were over the "Vietnam Syndrome" and prepared to defend our national interests. Our current president found the need to extend registration because he has "discovered" that the time saved in the event of an actual draft is much...
...President became more moderate in his opposition to Peking and his support of Taiwan by "facing the reality of Peking's importance to us," Thomson said. "When you consult a map, you discover our number-one natural partner against Russia is the People's Republic of China," he added...
...were strategists, students of their times and places, calculating with rare skill the human and industrial capacities of the nation, the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. One of Hart's heroes is General Mikhail Kutuzov, whose patient strategy in turning back Napoleon's invasion of Russia is immortalized in Tolstoy's War and Peace. The old general used time, weather, distance, maneuver and surprise to defeat the mightiest army ever assembled in Europe. "General Kutuzov outfought Napoleon, he didn't just overwhelm him with weapons," says Hart. "We must learn to do the same...