Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also morally grounded. David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, told The Crimson that "people are concerned about the unusual situation in which unmarried men are entertaining young women in what amounts to their bedrooms. This is not an accepted procedure in the United States or anywhere in the Western world...
...such opportunity would be the Brussels meeting, and as Bush headed across the Atlantic, he considered springing an eye-catching arms-control proposal at the NATO summit that would not only steal some of Gorbachev's thunder but also, perhaps, help heal a deep rift within the Western alliance. In the words of one of its architects, it would be a "real attention getter": a reduction of up to 10% of the 340,000 U.S. troops in Europe, with corresponding cuts in NATO aircraft and helicopters, if the Soviets agree to reduce their conventional forces to the levels the West...
...troop cutback would pose few military risks. In fact, in their latest offer in Vienna, the Soviets came close to accepting Western proposals for reducing their tanks and other conventional weapons. If those negotiations lead to an agreement on conventional arms, the way would be open to East-West talks on the most divisive issue within the Western alliance: the reduction of short-range nuclear missiles...
Whether or not NATO manages to heal the rift over short-range nuclear missiles, there has been remarkable progress on balancing Soviet and Western conventional forces -- and the President will now be able to take some credit for it. Balancing, after all, is one of the things George Bush does best...
...capital returned to a semblance of normality, even though some 250,000 troops were poised on the city's outskirts or headed for Beijing. The army, however, maintained an uneasy standoff with a reduced cadre of student protesters. The real drama took place in a walled enclave in the western hills outside Beijing, where members of the innermost circle of China's Communist Party met to resolve a bitter power struggle that had the capital aswirl with unfounded rumors and unanswered questions...