Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the Tehran government has continued to throw tens of thousands of ill-trained but fanatically loyal Islamic Guards and volunteers against the beleaguered Iraqi forces. Evidently helpless to reverse the course of an unpopular war, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has indicated his readiness to negotiate withdrawal of his troops...
The utilities contend that the hikes are necessary to cover the rising costs of fuel, labor and materials. Critics retort that gross mismanagement is the real problem. Both utilities committed themselves in the late 1970s to buy oil under long-term contracts at prices far higher than those now prevailing...
For his first trip outside Italy since the shooting, the Pope chose to make an 8,600-mile trek through four countries of West Africa. In response, Africans turned out by the tens, and hundreds of thousands. Normal activity in Nigeria's capital of Lagos all but stopped, as...
OF ALL the Nazi war criminals, he was perhaps the most cold-heartedly sinister, a man so evil that years after the war he could say without reservation, "I will jump into my grave laughing because the fact that I have the deaths of five million Jews on my conscience...
As on the industrial front, Roosevelt had embarked on a risky course of replacing an open market with Government management of agriculture; there were almost no precedents for such tricky devices as official price fixing, subsidies, and production controls. He had an additional enemy in nature, which afflicted the whole...