Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fred Woerner, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, issued an uncharacteristically public complaint that Washington has no real policy toward that country. In Asia, the focus of Bush's efforts last week, China and Viet Nam are negotiating a settlement in Kampuchea with almost no input from Washington. In Western Europe, allies beguiled by Mikhail Gorbachev's promise to reduce Soviet conventional forces wonder how far to modernize their own military power, and the U.S. has been unable to give them much guidance...
Material comes from a variety of sources, including free-lance journalists in South Africa and the frontline states and independent video agencies and documentary makers in Western Europe. Some of the taped footage is smuggled out of South Africa. "Journalists who work for us are willing to take incredible risks to get their stories out because they know we are willing to put them on the air," says Carolyn Craven, senior producer and co-anchor...
...Iranian revolutionary leader, 88, issued a statement rejecting Rushdie's apology and declaring flatly, "It is incumbent on every Muslim to do everything possible to send him to hell." Three days later, in a speech to a group of Iranian clerics, Khomeini added that nothing, not even Western economic sanctions, would "force us to retreat and forgo implementation of God's decree...
BOSTON--A Harvard astronomer was instrumental in the arrests in West Germany this week of three men who allegedly broke into key military and research computers in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, West German officials said...
Though America's system of popular education "is in its very nature fraught with difficulties and the institutions we have established to achieve it are inevitably flawed," Cremin said it remains "one of the most radical ideas in the Western world." In his upcoming lectures, Cremin plans to continue to "explore some of these problems and what they [mean] to education in our time...