Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tanks and 165 aircraft), the 230,000-man army has been rebuilt and re-equipped by the Soviets, with the help of 2,000 to 3,000 Russian advisers. "The Soviets have turned Syria into a huge weapons depot," says one Western military analyst. "But it's an embarrassment of outdated hardware. This means that the Syrian army's combat capability is very inefficient. About all they can do is defend...
...Assad's brother Rifaat, protects the President and his regime. There are stories of Rifaat's ruthless excesses: people losing a choice villa or apartment because he wanted it for a friend, or brutal beatings of someone who is less than polite to Rifaat's intimates. Nonetheless, says a Western diplomat, "without Rifaat, Assad would not sleep as comfortably as he does...
Soviet forces frequently impinge on Norway, which constitutes the northern flank of NATO and is a key Western listening post for monitoring Russian military intentions. About three times a month, Soviet reconnaissance planes take aim at Norway's Finnmark province, which abuts Russia's Kola Peninsula with its strategic naval bases and 900,000-member complement of Communist ground and air forces. The spy planes turn back only when challenged by NATO interceptors. At least twice a year, large-scale Soviet naval exercises are held off the Norwegian coast. Soviet submarines, based at Murmansk, glide into Norway's deep fjords...
...lately for either the Socialists or the Centrists. Popular discontent has been rising steadily. Inflation in Portugal during the first six months of 1978 has climbed to an annual rate of 21%. To get approval from the International Monetary Fund for $750 million in loans from a consortium of Western countries, Scares' government agreed to strict austerity measures that have drastically raised the price of food, transportation, fuel and other necessities. The wages of urban industrial workers have barely managed to stay ahead of the spiraling prices; rural workers are now worse off in terms of purchasing power than they...
...factual The Cloud Forest (1961) and the fictional At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), Matthiessen and his characters successfully, and at times beautifully, conveyed the dilemma of the Western mind: a need to worship wilderness and a desire to tame it in the name of progress and profit...