Word: war
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LOOKING at the condition of the inner cities, the environment, the infrastructure and education in this country, it seems as if the United States has just been through a war...
...recent events in Eastern Europe--the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the Solidarity government in Poland, the disintegration of Hungarian Communist Party--have validated the trillions of dollars spent in the long and costly struggle in which the United States has been engaged since World War...
Since November 9, when citizens of East and West Berlin reveled on top of the Berlin Wall, there have been no victory orations in the United States. No parades through Washington. No brass bands. No elation. This is unfortunate, because in effect the country has been through a successful war...
...news conference, Bush said, "We stand at the threshold of a new era..." but declined to assert the Cold War has ended as Gorbachev suggested...
...That day hasn't arrived," the president said when asked about Gorbachev's statement declaring an end to the "epoch of the Cold War...