Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notations also contain some eye- popping assertions: "The American strategists can sleep in peace. Their nightmares cannot be realised. The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour." If true, such statements and the accompanying evidence pointing out the military incompetence of the U.S.S.R. will obviously have profound effects on Western defense policies. On the other hand, the whole thing could be just another piece of devious disinformation...
...when Bush found himself in his first foreign policy crisis, the threat had nothing to do with the Soviet Union or its minions. The Monroe Doctrine, which proclaims the U.S.'s determination to keep the real imperialists from Europe out of the Western hemisphere, is irrelevant. Noriega is Uncle Sam's creature as well as his nemesis. Some Administration officials made a brief, silly attempt last week to blame the Kremlin for exploiting the trouble. Their only evidence: TASS, standing the story on its head, reported out of Panama that Noriega's opponents had cheated at the polls and fomented...
...Guards branded me as a big capitalist and an undercover ((Taiwan)) spy," Liu, 71, recalls with a wry smile. "They kept me in solitary confinement for over a year and later organized a pictorial exhibit of my crimes." These included photos of various articles of Western-style dress belonging to Liu and his wife that Red Guards had found in the course of ransacking their apartment...
Meanwhile, the problem of Western euphoria over Gorbachev is complicated by Moscow's having been particularly clever in its understanding of the public relations value of unilateral announcements -- something the West has yet to learn. When the Soviets make unilateral announcements, Moscow reaps a tremendous p.r. benefit, and I'm left with the reality -- continued huge Soviet military capabilities. It's difficult to get the public to realize that unilateral pronouncements uncodified by treaty are easy to turn around, as are intentions generally. I'm routinely criticized for a supposedly overly simplistic insistence on assessing capabilities rather than intentions. Well...
...Official Registrar, which covered the years from 1917 to 1920, 60 percent of Harvard students were form private schools; that compares to 34 percent now. Eighty-eight percent of students were from New England and Atlantic states, compared to 53 percent today. Three percent hailed from Western states, compared to 15 percent today. Only a handful of students came from foreign countries--between .1 and .4 percent--and today foreign students comprise 6 percent of the student body...