Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rulers of the Communist world are reaping the results of decades of propaganda aimed at ensuring control in backward peasant societies. During the early days of the cold war, when it seemed that nothing could contain the virus of Communist expansion, pundits attempted to assure the West that most Marxist regimes took power only with the force of outside arms. On its own, Communism took root only in benighted countries like czarist Russia and feudal China. The more advanced countries of Eastern Europe -- Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland -- had the Marxist-Leninist system thrust upon them on the point of a Soviet...
MIAMI VICE (NBC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). The high-style cop show that defined TV noir for the '80s ends its five-year war on drugs with a two-hour finale. The ending is hush-hush, but the network says Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas) will make their "last stand together...
...SCANDAL. It's all here: the loveless romances of Christine Keeler with a Soviet spy, a Jamaican drug dealer and John Profumo, Secretary of War in Harold Macmillan's Cabinet. This express tour through swinging London plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll...
...decades, the operation of the Panama Canal has dominated relations between Panama and the U.S. However, strategically and economically, the canal is no longer the vital crossroad it once was. Since World War II, the U.S. has developed fleets in both the Atlantic and Pacific as well as major ports on both coasts. Today U.S. military vessels make only about 30 trips a year through the canal; the Navy's largest carriers are too big for the locks. "It's only useful now to do some rearranging of the fleet in preparation for war," says Ambler Moss, a former...
...least Chairman Mao was honest," said a worker from Hubei province as he carried a lifesized poster of Mao. "He even sent his son to the Korean War. Nowadays, the leaders send their sons to America...