Word: wars
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...Central Europe in the 1920s and '30s was an exciting, stimulating, and at times frightening place in which to grow up. Among the friends and neighbors of the Deutsch family were many Sudetan Germans who felt they had been cheated out of self-determination at the end of World War I, and who consequently heartily approved--especially after two crippling depressions--of the ascension of Chancellor Hitler and of Hitler's intention to restore order and unite German people all over the world...
...received a scholarship from Harvard to pursue a Ph.D. program in government and he finally received his Ph.D. in 1951, after delays caused by World War II and by his teaching job at MIT. By then, his parents had escaped from Czechoslovakia and joined him in Cambridge...
Deutsch volunteered to fight for America during World War II but was rejected because of his poor eyesight. Instead, he worked for the U.S. State Department for two years in the Office of Strategic Services, using his fluency in English. Czech, German, and French, his reading knowledge of Latin, and his general understanding of Spanish and Russian for OSS intelligence analysis...
Rhodesia is a country torn by war, with 90 per cent of the country under martial law (hence the undemocratic nature of the "elections" should be obvious). According to New York Times reports, the Patriotic Front has twice as many guerillas fighting within the country now as it had a year ago. In this situation the Ian Smith regime is desperate to gain political, economic, and indirect military support from the West...
...main effect of U.S. trade and recognition would be temporarily to strengthen white resistance, prolong and intensify the war, and increase still further the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe. But observers agree that the tide is against the present regime, and Western support cannot save...