Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, the P.L.A. initially stood aloof. As the Red Guards ran amuck, Mao Zedong urged the military to challenge them -- but with rhetoric, not guns and bayonets. Some officers rebelled against what they felt was the ambiguity of their position. In Wuhan district, the military commander, General Chen Zaidao, was ordered to support the local Red Guard faction. He refused and seized as hostages three party officials who were sent to confront him. Premier Zhou Enlai had to negotiate their release...
...climbers, a motley assembly of shorts and sneakers, knickers and mountain boots, start out with cheerful hearts over a gentle, 5 1/2-mile path through rain forest to Mandara, a "village" of overnight huts. The second day is a more strenuous, 7 1/2-mile upward trudge through moorland to the Horombo complex of huts. Both sites were developed by the Norwegians as an aid project in the early 1970s. Today they could do with a little redevelopment...
...President Bush has not yet endorsed the program, and funding is uncertain. While NASA has $24.2 million of EOS start-up money in its fiscal 1990 budget, the big push for Mission to Planet Earth will begin this fall, when the agency asks for $100 million more for 1991. That hardly seems too much for a long-term commitment to help save the planet...
Peacenik William Sloane Coffin suggests that now is the time to end the arms race and start dismantling NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...When you talk to Tom, you start biting your fingernails and you don't stop until you're up to your elbows," says Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski. "What he does is good, but sometimes getting there is frustrating." Still, Democrats who chafed under Wright's autocratic dealing can look forward to having their views sounded out more regularly. Says a congressional aide: "Foley is good about consulting with all the barons on the committees, then deciding what...