Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West's commitment to Berlin was tested in August 1961, after the East Germans put up a wall to keep their people in. But the boldest Soviet bloc challenge came in the fall of 1962. Khrushchev gambled that he could shift the global balance of power by secretly building some 40 launch pads for medium-range missiles in Cuba. After U.S. surveillance planes spotted the new installations, Kennedy told the Soviets that a nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be considered "as an attack by the Soviet Union...
...these are easy enough to predict, with certainty. But it is not easy to see where this will end. Indeed, there is the strong sense it may not end at all, that the forms will keep mutating, that the big screen and the small will shape, share and shift sizes, and that music will be the common ground...
...that could help mollify the military, the U.S. certified that Argentina had shown improvement in dealing with human rights, citing the elections and a virtual end to the "disappearances." The certification lifts an arms-sale ban that dates back to 1978. However, Alfonsin has sought to down-play the shift, noting that his plans to cut the military budget will leave no room for additional arms purchases. Britain, which had opposed certification following its war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, reacted with restraint to the decision. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher even sent Alfonsin a congratulatory message on his inauguration...
...trade unions in South Africa. Although Jimmy Carter's policies have since been denounced as somewhat shortsighted, the Reagan Administration has gone further, taking an almost Orwellian line. At the beginning of his presidency, Reagan announced that a policy of so-called "constructive engagement" would make for a greater shift in South African policy towards Blacks. That has not happened. He said that a friendly alliance with South Africa had its roots in World War II, when South Africa served as a wartime ally. In reality, half of the important cabinet members, including former Prime Minister John Vorster, refused...
...ironed out in future meetings between lesser officials of both nations, the package of military aid and trade concessions places Israel back in the forefront of U.S. policy in the Middle East, at the calculated risk of upsetting the moderate Arab states. As such, it was an abrupt shift in the Administration's Middle East policy, which had stressed U.S. efforts to play an evenhanded mediator's role...