Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northeast Personal and Business Computer Show drew well over a hundred computer firms, exhibiting products that ranged from "space-war" games to "glitch detectors" (computer program troubleshooters), and from musical synthesizers to mobile robots...
...growing support: "I don't find the growing support. What we do is not predicated at all on what Senator Kennedy does. It doesn't matter what he does." Citing her husband's "solid record" of accomplishment, she noted the nation was not at war, 8 million more Americans were employed and progress was being made toward a balanced budget and peace in the Middle East. Her Jimmy, she emphasized, was the first President to offer comprehensive energy legislation...
...reform and land redistribution. The policy met with violent resistance from the country's Islamic tribesmen, who make up some 85% of Afghanistan's 17 million people. Loyal to their old feudal leaders and enraged by the new, "godless" regime in Kabul, Muslim guerrillas launched a civil war that has kept the Soviet-backed Khalq government tottering on the brink of collapse ever since. Western diplomats in Kabul estimate that the rebels control 22 of the country's 28 provinces...
Kunstler said he sympathizes with the plight of the boat people, but added that the problem is inevitable following the massive upheaval created by the U.S. in "our illegal and immoral war...
Speaking to an audience of 150 at the Law School Forum, Kunstler said he thinks he can "understand the reasoning" behind the Vietnamese government's decision to force so-called "war criminals" to search for mines left over from the war. "It's part of a terrible, terrible time," he added...