Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME I was in fifth grade. I almost had the official United Nations tour memorized. As an integral part of just about every year's schooling until then, product as I was of Manhattan's most progressive elementary schools. I was trundled off to the U. N. for a lesson in world harmony. By fifth grade, I had more to say about internationalism than Eleanor Roosevelt...
...whisked through only when they were empty. I greatly anticipated the day when I would turn fourteen, which qualifies you to actually sit in on a debate, and play with the little dial on the chair that chooses a simultaneous translation of the proceedings in any of five official U. N. languages. Until I turned 14, I was pretty much a regular on the tour and in the gift shop...
...view from the gift shop was upbeat as could be. In addition to the aforementioned paperweight/pencil holder, they had big fat pens with the U. N. insignia on it, and little dolls from various nations, that all smile at each other. What I didn't realize was that it was 1972, and the U. N. had spent almost a decade waffling on Vietnam. Soviet Jewry, and most of the other major calamities then facing the world. But it didn't matter: I had the ideals of international cooperation drilled into me well...
...pipeline contracts with the Soviet Union, should honor their commitments. That resolve hardened when the Reagan Administration last month announced its decision to sell the Soviet Union 23 million tons of wheat, or 15 million more than last year's allotment. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, usually pro-U.S. in its views, curtly dismissed the grain deal as a ploy "to win the votes of American farmers" in last week's midterm U.S. elections...
...deployment of U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles in NATO countries, and hinted that Moscow might have to revise its decision, announced last March, to freeze unilaterally the deployment of its own new SS-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe. In view of the strains in the Soviet-U.S. relationship, Brezhnev said, it was important for the Soviet Union to normalize relations with China "and we are doing everything in our power toward this...