Word: warred
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Instead of a cold war, securing markets and halting an economic slide relative to Japan and rising economies like South Korea and Taiwan could become the focus of American foreign policy, experts...
...midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union was poised for war with the United States, panelists revealed at a conference last week in Moscow. But today, President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev are on the verge of a brave new world of global relations...
...though in penance for its sins, television occasionally tries to promote literacy in the sense of both knowledge and reading. Such megasubjects as science, art, mythology and civilization, as well as the hot and cold wars of the 20th century, have been creditably presented in public-TV documentaries, usually with what are called in the trade "book tie-ins." Now the history of the Bomb is traced in a masterly 13-part PBS series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, and in a comprehensive, highly readable companion book of the same title (Knopf; $22.95). The book, published last week...
Having been used only twice, within a four-day period nearly 44 years ago at the end of World War II, the Bomb is prone to mind-numbing abstraction. The TV series uses grainy, black-and-white newsreels to make landmark events feel as though they happened in the real world and epigrammatic statements sound as though they were said by real people. One of many moments that make War and Peace television at its best: a 1946 United Nations disarmament conference is seen considering a U.S. plan for international controls that would prevent the Soviet Union from developing...
Iraq came under widespread criticism last year after it killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of Kurdish villagers with a chemical-weapons attack in the gulf war. Now U.S. officials confirm that Baghdad has been developing yet another form of warfare expressly banned by international law: biological weapons...