Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That evening, as Carter stood at the polished walnut lectern, he looked nervous for only a moment, first licking and then biting his upper lip. Then he began moving somberly but smoothly through the 32-minute address, before a packed audience of top Administration officials, Supreme Court Justices, Congressmen, Senators...
Increasing numbers of churchmen, from laymen to cardinals, have involved themselves in the numerous detainees groups, legal protection associations, and private appeals for mercy. Marcos's nebulous definition of subversion mixes activist priests and naive college students with communist guerillas and Muslim rebels. The government's war against Muslim secessionists...
Officials in Washington tended to disagree. They did not rule out the possibility if Iran were to tumble into complete chaos. In the Administration's view, however, it was considered more likely that the Soviets would pour increasing numbers of troops into Afghanistan in order to quell the rebellion...
Warns Christopher Foss, British editor of the authoritative Jane's Armour and Artillery 1979-1980: "The armor gap is so great that the West is falling hopelessly behind in getting vehicles into the field." By 1987, the U.S. Army hopes to deploy 7,000 XM1 tanks to counter the...
A jubilant Indira declared that her party had won "entirely on my name." Indeed, there was little doubt that the country had responded once again to the dynastic magic of the daughter of India's venerated first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Apparently forgotten were her authoritarian ways: the coercive...