Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It hasn't been a great year for international revolution. The two countries whose apparent victories lit up last May Day have found their victories elusive. In Vietnam, the cease-fire won by almost three decades of struggle proved to be little more than a scrap of paper, as the...
With as much as 80% of the nation's 4 million cattle dead and tens of thousands of its 4.3 million people dying of starvation, Niger seems to fit the ominous pattern Waldheim described in his warning. But diplomats insisted that more than the drought was involved in the...
These and many other aural Rip Van Winkles have returned from a generation's oblivion to find themselves the heroes and heroines of a fast-growing, nationwide cult. Through clubs, catalogues and newsletters, tens of thousands of fans and some 4,000 active traders are collecting and listening to...
Secret War. The book reports that contrary to the general impression, the CIA devotes about two-thirds of its annual budget of some $750 million to covert operations and only 10% to intelligence gathering. The $750 million, moreover, is merely part of the money spent on the CIA. The Pentagon...
One nation that still refuses to permit the tours is China, whose leaders have unpleasant memories of the Emperor's war machine at work, and may not want to encourage anything that smacks of resurgent Japanese militarism. But the pilgrimages are far from chauvinistic because the groups do not...