Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greater threat to world peace than one that openly recognizes its past atrocities and encourages the expression of different views. An economically weak military superpower would be more likely to play off its area of strength; so America should welcome relations on an economic level, not in a war zone...
...should liberals hesitate to credit the Reagan Administration for taking part in and encouraging this watershed period in superpower relations. Remember those early associations of a trigger happy Reagan with the spectacle of nuclear war...
While the U.S. State Department routinely affirms its support for Lebanon's indpendence, Syrian influence in the war-battered country is considered preferable to the rise of Iranian sponsored Islamic fundamentalists believed to hold U.S. and other foreign hostages there...
Bobby Kennedy, more than any presidential candidate before Jesse Jackson, gave hope to Black America. He was fond of chiding white college audiences for the noticeable absence of people of color in their midst. When challenged on the war issue by an angry white undergraduate, he shot back that one of the biggest tragedies of the war was the fact that it was whites, almost exclusively, who had the opportunity to question the war; Blacks were denied the privilege because they were more than likely dying on far away battlefields...
...heroic and dramatic history of my country, Soviet women have written many pages that our people are proud of and that are marked by striking selflessness and self-sacrifice, by boundless kindness and charity. How many personal tragedies were inflicted on women by World War II! Millions of them never experienced love, family happiness or the joys of motherhood. Our women know the price of war and peace. They are ardent and convinced champions of peace...