Word: subcontinental
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An effort to track down the rumors about Soviet agents operating in the southeast began in Chah Bahar, an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman commanding the approaches to the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The mysterious new tower that had been spotted near the town turned out to be...
India's liberating victory in the two-week border war ended the armed struggle. Certainly, Indhira Gandhi could describe the intervention as humanitarian, but her country had plenty of its own interest to serve by expelling the Pakistani army from Bengal and sending burdensome refugees back to their homes. It...
But Reagan was also breaking sharply with the approach of the Carter Administration, which had tried to slow nuclear proliferation by strictly controlling nuclear exports from the U.S. In 1978, at Carter's urging, Congress passed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act. This forced all would-be nuclear customers of...
THE INDIVIDUAL WEIGHT of these images and arguments are magnified through Burgess's skillful weaving of the religious and the blasphemous into the tapestry of Toomey's narrative. It proceeds almost as a stream-of-consciousness, rambling through the described decades and countries, but always preserving and highlighting the important...
The political independence gained after nearly 200 years of colonial experience has not rid India of cultural imperialism. Though far more subtly than the historical invasions of the subcontinent, a new wave, affecting the social and political conditions of the nation, has much more insidious repercussions on the country's...