Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudi Arabia would accelerate a potentially lethal arms race in the Middle East. They also worry that the planes, with their highly sophisticated, secret equipment, might fall into the wrong hands. Says New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo: "There is no one who can guarantee what type [Saudi] government, pro-U.S., anti-U.S. or violently opposed to Israel, will be in control of these weapons one year or five years from...
Nelles will teach "Introduction to Canadian History" and "Canadian Social History" next year, and will also serve as co-chairman of a University Consortium seminar on Canadian-U.S. relations...
...plan, which was supported by the Carter Administration, had called for a U.N. peacekeeping force to monitor a cease-fire in the 14-year-old guerrilla war between the insurgent South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and South African forces. This was to have been followed by U. N.-supervised elections for a national assembly that would write a new Namibian constitution...
From the rusting spans of its once proud bridges to the leaking sewers beneath its streets, America is structurally unsound. Highways are crumbling. Avenues are cracking. Trains jump their worn-out tracks. Coal ships languish outside overburdened ports. While the U. S. has the technological prowess to blast a magnificent space shuttle into orbit and land it gently back on earth, it has failed to care properly for its most important public works...
...directors of M16 and BND-West German intelligence-share a passion for cactus growing, exploring ways to XPD mealy bugs. Finally, Deighton delivers a telling pronouncement. The well-heeled film producer Max Breslow, a former SS officer, notes a wall of video games in a Los Angeles pizzeria. "U-Boat Commander" and "Blitzkrieg" produce a deafening flood of electronic babble. "This was the war we won, the war that came after the war." Deighton, in top form, wins this one as well...