Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native of Houston, Duncan started out as a chemical engineer and roustabout for the Humble Oil and Refining Co. After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he joined a family firm, the Duncan Coffee Co. (later Duncan Foods), and in 1958 became its president. Six years later, when the company was merged into Coca-Cola, Duncan moved to London as head of Coca-Cola's European operations. He became president of the Atlanta-based firm in November 1971, at a time when Jimmy Carter was Governor of Georgia, but quit less than three years later...
...Business and of budget deficits. Apparently afraid of being captured by any single adviser, he has listened first to one and then to another. This has been reflected in White House swings of policy and shifts of focus. He has fought first unemployment, then inflation, then the energy war. At one moment Carter has preached a balanced budget and then turned around and sent Congress a health-care plan that would add $24 billion to federal spending. He has said he favors decontrol of energy prices, but has always been reluctant to take such steps...
...risen when the blue-and-white presidential helicopter took off from the hills above Managua. It hovered over a heavily fortified complex in the heart of the war-torn capital and flicked on its landing lights. For the last time, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle gazed down upon the bunker that had been his combination home and command post for the past 20 months. Then the chopper alighted at Las Mercedes Airport, where Somoza's private jet was standing by. Moments later, the wan and pasty-faced dictator, drooping with fatigue, was on his way into exile...
...dynasty. It was as if a giant weight had been lifted off Nicaragua's back. Late in the week, after the new provisional Government of National Reconstruction had taken command of Managua, the capital awoke to an orchestra of gunfire. It was not a resumption of the civil war that ended in Somoza's humiliating defeat. Instead, guerrillas of the victorious Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) were firing their weapons in jubilation. Men and women cheered and cried tears of joy as a huge equestrian statue of the dictator's father, the founder of the Somoza dynasty...
...tensions. Its foreign ventures have cost Hanoi dearly. Contrary to their expectations, Vietnamese military commanders have seen their Cambodian campaign extend well into the rainy season, and there is no end in sight. Viet Nam's own economy is in bad shape, in part because of the Cambodia war, but also because of several bad crop years compounded by gross mismanagement. Viet Nam suffered enormous damage to its northern provinces during its fierce one-month war with China. Factories, schools, office buildings and other structures were demolished. Though the war has been over for several months, normal life...